Tennessee Titans Daily Links: Think Global, Rehab Local Edition

by August West on Oct 12, 2011 10:54 AM CDT in Tennessee Titans Links

Go ahead sexy caller, you're live on The Quiet Storm.

Great news: Kenny Britt is planning on staying in Nashville for his rehab. He'll be working with team trainers at BSP, which is a great way for him to stay involved, focused and out of trouble.

Craig Stevens is hopeful that his ailing ribs will be less sore by the time the Texans game roles around, but he could suffer a big setback if Marc Mariani follows through with his threat to take Stevens to Zanies this weekend... then again, Killer Beaz is the comic for this weekend, so he shouldn't have to worry about laughing too much.

Doug Farrar delivers the book on the Titans' massive letdown against the Steelers, and he says that the running game was actually working for CJ before we got too far down and had to abandon the running game.

Munchak's answer to questions about changing up the personnel on the offensive line was interesting if you like reading too much into things and not reading full statements:

"No, not yet,"

Matt Hasselbeck talks about his bye week plans for resting and healing.

David Boclair has serious doubts about Munchak, Palmer and Matthews' ability to fix the run game this year.

Matt Hasselbeck leads this week's LOLs from KSK.

Derrick Mason is making his next stop on his 'I'm going to play exclusively for teams that piss off hardcore Titans fans' tour, which pulls into Houston in exchange for a conditional 7th rounder... yes I get that Mason can't control being traded... it's for humor people.

On the heels of that news, Paul K looks at why Donnie Avery makes more sense for the Titans than Derrick Mason.

If you're hurting at WR on your fantasy football team, you could do worse than Damian Williams. Williams has been inconsistent, but he's getting tons of targets and is probably our best red zone WR threat.

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I still contend that the offensive line would be better with Harris at center and Amano at guard

But, I honestly think Palmer needs to change the way he is calling the run game…CJ is not your typical RB, so you can’t call the typical run plays. Especially with the way defenses are flying up the edges, the Titans must call counters and other misdirection plays at least 1 out of every 2 running plays.

We saw several counters in the Cleveland game and CJ had more room to run. We only saw one counter called in the Pittsburgh game (and practically none in the other games).

If you can’t fix the interior of the offensive line, then you have to adjust your play calling to cover up for that weakness. It is up to Munchak and Palmer to do that…

by shawneriksmith on Oct 12, 2011 11:01 AM CDT reply actions

Film review candidates.

What are ya’ll interested in?

1. CJ’s 21 yard run.
2. H. Miller TD against Ruud
3. Hasselbeck to D.Will for TD

I could also do some other plays, such as CJ’s run failures, but it will be using broadcast coverage….

by SuperHorn on Oct 12, 2011 11:06 AM CDT reply actions

Either of 1 & 2.

I’d be most interested in seeing CJ’s run.

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by WinnipegTitanFan13 on Oct 12, 2011 11:11 AM CDT up reply actions

+1.

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by DannoE on Oct 12, 2011 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm actually pretty interested on seeing how these zone coverage plays in the end zone are suppose to be a good defense to run in the end zone

with having Capt. Morgan dropping back in coverage (Ruud not being behind him) 2 weeks ago, and last week with Ball dropping back (again Ruud not being there to back him up). How should they be executed and why would they risk having a D-linemen cover anyone in the red zone… IMO

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 11:19 AM CDT up reply actions

This pretty much explains what I am trying to understand why this would be a good idea:

The Titans’ defensive linemen really seemed to struggle with certain assignments. When ends Derrick Morgan(notes) and Dave Ball(notes) were asked to flare out in coverage on zone blitzes, they weren’t able to do much but provide stationary targets for Ben Roethlisberger(notes) to avoid. And on Heath Miller’s(notes) first-quarter touchdown, tackle Karl Klug(notes) had Miller in his vicinity, but stayed home while Miller advanced to the goal line. Sending a bunch of zone blitzes at Roethlisberger might not be the best idea — Big Ben’s defensive coordinator is Dick LeBeau, who pretty much invented the concept. You imagine that he might see zone blitzes at a pretty high level through the week.

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions

FWIW

The Miller TD wasn’t a zone blitz. Klug dropped into coverage, but they didn’t bring extra pressure.

by SuperHorn on Oct 12, 2011 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions

That is what I would like to understand better is how this would have been a good play call

because it seemed like a mess when it happened. Klug had no chance.

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Klug there for the super short throw in front of him

Either Ruud or Spoon (most likely Spoon) should have had Miller as he moved through Klug’s tiny arm zone

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by rothbard on Oct 12, 2011 1:28 PM CDT up reply actions

So have the smallest armed human in on pass coverage

It has to work, right?!

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Numero dos

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by sami426 on Oct 12, 2011 11:19 AM CDT up reply actions

#2

seems there’s growing concern about Ruud. I’d like to have more info on it – at least on this specific play.

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by oilertitan on Oct 12, 2011 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions

It happened!!

He met the Rb and he just brushed him off!
like he was dirt on his shoulders!

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by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Oct 12, 2011 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions

Any chance you can find the play

where “Ruud met the running back in the hole and got run over?”

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by gramsey712 on Oct 12, 2011 11:36 AM CDT up reply actions

bahaha

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 11:38 AM CDT up reply actions

It's there! Somewhere in the tapes.

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions

Hey

it happened!

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by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Oct 12, 2011 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions

it's bound to be on the tape somewhere

oh….wait…it’s on every play!!!

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by nolesbroncos3456 on Oct 12, 2011 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions

Any chance we can get a couple plays on how soft our coverage was the whole game?

We left the short routes open all game. The third and four from the six yardline comes to mind where Griff lines up in the endzone. I still can’t understand our defensive playcalls in this game.

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by DuelDukes on Oct 12, 2011 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions

Because it was the one game in about 5 years

where the Steelers were dinking and dunking down the field, rather than lobbing bombs deep like they usually do. On a lot of weeks this, gameplan would be how everyone plays the Steelers. I put more of the blame on the players than Gray.

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by August West on Oct 12, 2011 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions

agreed

up until it obviously wasn’t working and then you adjust. So by this point in the game there is no excuse to be playing off.

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by DuelDukes on Oct 12, 2011 4:21 PM CDT up reply actions

I'd actually like to see that fake punt the Steelers pulled on us.

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by fanoftheunderdogs on Oct 12, 2011 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions

1 & 2

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by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Oct 12, 2011 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions

How much do we think Avery will be involved after the bye week and moving forward?

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by ronburgundy7427 on Oct 12, 2011 11:18 AM CDT reply actions

I think he is def. going to get more involved.

I think Thor is kinda getting at his whits end with Dwill. I see more upside with Avery right now then Dwill… but I am officially becoming a Dwill hater until proven otherwise.. sooooo.

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions

co-signed

DWill is really pissing me off

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by sami426 on Oct 12, 2011 11:21 AM CDT up reply actions

I saw an article talking about all the option routes we use.

I believe we would be better suited to only have our veterans (Nate Washington) run those kind of routes. Everyone else should have a set route on most of their plays imo. And we have to start utilizing the screen more often. I would show CJ tapes of Darren Sproles catching screens an make a compromise with him. You can run however you want, but when you catch screens it’s time for the burners.

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by DuelDukes on Oct 12, 2011 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Pettigrew screens with Cook!!! Linemen + Cook = Flying V.

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by StPrattrick on Oct 12, 2011 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions

RE: Farrar article

It’s “funny” that the one thing we all wanted to improve actually improved in the game vs the Steelers, but everything else turned to crap. Hopefully the Titans aren’t frauds that have been exposed, and just had some mental breakdowns across the board.

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by oilertitan on Oct 12, 2011 11:24 AM CDT reply actions

stopped reading after:

Left guard Leroy Harris(notes) and center Eugene Amano(notes) are dynamic upfield blockers

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by hal41605 on Oct 12, 2011 11:40 AM CDT up reply actions

unfortunately they suck at blocking guys even vaguely close to their own size.

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by August West on Oct 12, 2011 1:09 PM CDT up reply actions

Possibilities??

Matt Kalil (OT from So.Cal)…..Jonathan Martin (OT from Stanford)…..Cordy Glenn (OG from Georgia)…..David DeCastro (OG from Stanford)…..what do ya’ll think??

I’m thinking we should a fairly decent pick in the 1st round.

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by titansfan4ever on Oct 12, 2011 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions

But they are

Their problem is getting there in the first place.

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by rothbard on Oct 12, 2011 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions

The problem is blocking at the point of attack, IMO.

They get blown into the backfield by big, physical DTs too often.

If they ever get the D lineman blocked, they get off on the linebackers so well, that we got used to seeing CJ go for 80….

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by TennesseeTyrants on Oct 12, 2011 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions

They should just go all out zone

instead of the different styles the are currently mixing in. Amano and Harris, a lot of the time, just struggle taking on big DTs man-for-man at the line of scrimmage. Fine, accept that and do something different: bring on the double teams + cut blocks. A few executed cut blocks (see Scott in SH’s breakdown) should slow down the initial rush somewhat.

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by rothbard on Oct 13, 2011 10:15 AM CDT up reply actions

Yes, cut blocks on those DTs will make them hesitant off the snap

they wouldn’t know wether to jump or to stay low.

atleast thats what used to happen to me

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by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Oct 13, 2011 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions

It was just a bad match-up. The exact opposite of the Ravens game.

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by DannoE on Oct 12, 2011 11:50 AM CDT up reply actions

the Steelers almost never lose when Big Ben stays as clean as he did against us

whether it was Ben getting the ball out faster, the d-line not showing up, or a combo of the two, that’s where the game fell apart to me.

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by hal41605 on Oct 12, 2011 11:52 AM CDT up reply actions

Ironically, I think the foot injury actually helped his game.

It forced him to play smart and be disciplined rather than running around like a maniac like he usually does. I also think that they actually upgraded their O-Line when they resigned Max Starks. Finally, I think that this Titans teams isn’t nearly as good on the road as they are at home.

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