Tennessee Titans Daily Links: Secondary Firings Edition

and it’s hard to argue that Von Miller was not number 1.

He quietly had a great year; while he didn’t get the attention of some of our rookies (who I think that was partially due to how bad the guys they replaced were) or Finnegan got, McCourty was our most consistent guy. And perhaps the fact that he wasn’t thrown at as much or we DIDN’T hear his name a ton is a good thing considering the position he plays.

Couldve been better if the interior oline wasnt so awful

The Texan fans Flipped. The. F. Out when that play happened… instead what I saw, one of the dumbest plays I’ve seen in a long time. Tackling without helmet = Ok, nice work… you are a tough dude.
Tackling without helmet + leading the tackle with your face = WTF are you doing and why is everyone cheering for your potential brain damage.

WTF-Play-Of-The-Week!

He was regularly one of the first at the facility and last to leave. As if we needed another reason to love the guy.

coaching up safety play and corner play is pretty identical, the defensive play call is where they differ their responsibilities. So to say they could coach corners but not safeties is not right. I don’t think their firings had anything to do with how bad our safeties play has been, we just do not have very good players playing the positions.

And that’s not to mention fourth-rounder Tommie Campbell at running back. Seems he wants to stick around, too.

if the race is down to miami and st. louis, i really hope he ends up going to the dolphins. just can’t imagine him coaching the rams. it’d be blasphemous.

I don´t think Hasselbeck was our MVP. Nate deserved that honor, imo.
As for defensive rookie of the year, Casey would be my pick, instead of McCarthy.

but he actually meant richard

That one honestly kind of scares me, I could see him utilizing the quick-strike stuff that has been so effective for Dalton in Cincy. Gabbert has and will have horrendous pocket presence but having quick strikes like that may minimize his lack of presence and allow him to just make one read and get rid of it.

He summed up my opinion of CJ this year quite nicely. Better than that one from FO. This line specifically.

And although the team consistently defended him, it was completely fair to question his effort. He often went down too easily, he didn’t make a guy miss when he wound up one-on-one and he didn’t work hard enough at his responsibilities without the ball in his hands.

That’s nailed on the head.

From http://footballoutsiders.com/walkthrough/2012/walkthrough-spreadsheet-surfer

Longest first-down situation: first-and-35, Titans versus Saints, Week 14. The Titans had just gotten the ball to their own 45-yard line on a Saints roughness penalty, but a Michael Roos flinch and back-to-back penalties by Leroy Harris pushed them all the way back to their own 20-yard line. (One Harris flag negated a 25-yard screen pass to Javon Ringer). Matt Hasselbeck’s pass on first-and-really-really-long was batted into the air by a Saints lineman. Hasselbeck hurt himself during the deflection, because he is Matt Hasselbeck, and the collision of air molecules to his knees and ankles probably causes damage at this point. The Titans, not surprisingly, were forced to punt two plays later.

Bironas and Kern. both were stellar this year.

Eddie….give it up and go into coaching.

Does CB suddenly become a priority in the draft and/or free agency? I like McCourty, but I think he’s good as a solid #2. I really like Verner but I think his role is exactly as it was this season. I think Finnegan is a must-re-sign player for us.

please tell me we’ve got some folks in here watching the all american game tonight?