On Lee Evans And The Titans' Pass Rush

by August West on Sep 15, 2011 2:41 PM CDT in Tennessee Titans Commentary

Ravens WR Lee Evans returned to practice today, and told local reporters "I plan on playing this Sunday, but we'll have to see. You've got to take it day-by-day and see what happens." Evans injured his left ankle during the preseason, which probably goes a long way towards explaining why he recorded zero catches against the Steelers despite being targeted four times by Joe Flacco. He was seen wearing a boot as recently as yesterday, so even if he plays you can pretty much bank on Evans not being 100%.

Given that he's carved out a career based largely on his speed, a hobbled Evans could give the Titans a break on Sunday. Last week Flacco's primary targets were WR Anquan Boldin (who is great at the short/intermediate stuff but not a consistent vertical threat) and RB Ray Rice, TE Ed Dickson and TE Dennis Pitta. Those guys shouldn't be big threats to stretch the field against the Titans, which should allow Jerry Gray to aggressively attack Flacco without as much fear of the deep bomb.

That's good news, especially since Flacco was the worst in the NFL about taking coverage sacks last year. Combine that with the return of Derrick Morgan and Jason Jones, and the Titans defense has a really good chance to make a statement with this game.

Hopefully that statement is capped with Flacco on his back, and the defense headed off the field.

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We just need to cover the middle of the G-D field!!!!

and do our best to slow down R.R. I think we’ll do fine.

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by StPrattrick on Sep 15, 2011 2:47 PM CDT reply actions

Off Topic: I hope we don't have to listen to Dan Fouts

for this game. He makes it 10xs worse than it is…freakin’ torture.

by PA-Titan on Sep 15, 2011 2:57 PM CDT reply actions

^truth....i feel like Brent Musburger in waterboy...really dan? really?

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by MexicanTitanFreak on Sep 15, 2011 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions

It's Steve Tasker and Bill Macatee this week

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by August West on Sep 15, 2011 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions

meh

I wanna know when are we gonna get some Marv Albert, damnit

by trevor2013 on Sep 15, 2011 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions

A fair argument, but note that Lee Evans played with the ankle problem last week and the Steelers still covered him heavily. I would also be careful about claiming Ed Dickson is not a threat to stretch the field. The young TE has several big long plays under his belt. /ravens fan

by math_geek on Sep 15, 2011 3:04 PM CDT reply actions

Unibrow's ha! and sad face cause this hairy/mexican struggles to with the unpredictability of the brow!

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by MexicanTitanFreak on Sep 15, 2011 3:05 PM CDT reply actions

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by rothbard on Sep 15, 2011 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs

Can I borrow those?

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by MexicanTitanFreak on Sep 16, 2011 8:40 AM CDT up reply actions

what the hell?

by Evan Skev on Sep 16, 2011 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions

AHMEN!

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by JustinS on Sep 15, 2011 3:10 PM CDT reply actions

This made me spit my coffee on my computer screen omg

Coach, do we really have to call every empty-back formation “Unibrow”?

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by BythePowerofMunchak! on Sep 15, 2011 3:12 PM CDT reply actions

Nice info,

I didn’t know this. Thanks.

GO TITANS!!!

by RhiNo6705 on Sep 15, 2011 3:36 PM CDT reply actions

http://gotitans.com/goForum/showthread.php?t=40883

unibrow

by Daniel Knick on Sep 15, 2011 5:33 PM CDT reply actions

O-line – please, please block somebody! D-line – please god don’t let ’em push you around like a feather duster and run right over the top of you! LB and Secondary – please just tackle them … down to the ground … so you are on top of them! And please lord somebody cover the middle of the G-D field!!! Amen. If we do this we will do just fine.

by Brasskey on Sep 15, 2011 6:29 PM CDT reply actions

Ravens fan

The impact Lee Evans had on our offense last week can’t be put into numbers. He drew Ike Taylor from the Steelers who is a very good CB and on some plays the S had to help out as well. This opened up the rest of the offense and you can see that on the Boldin TD. We have never had a consistent deep threat to keep the defense honest and that is why Joe had so many coverage sacks. We had an old slow group of WR’s running deep outs and comebacks, which is why they always got very little separation. Our TE Ed Dickson is also helping as a deep threat and had a very strong game against Pitt. The deep threats are opening up so many other players and statistically that won’t show up. Evans also was seen in a walking boot before last weeks game and still appeared to be fast and like I said he drew the Steelers top CB and not Boldin. He just needs to build some chemistry with Flacco as well because he has only been here a few weeks.

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by AV23 on Sep 15, 2011 6:58 PM CDT reply actions