Tennessee Titans Thread

hard to know how often Clowney/Lewan will spar in the games this year but this is a pretty good article

http://www.battleredblog.com/2014/5/26/5751342/the-title-fight-jadeveon-clowney-vs-taylor-lewan-part-i

wow 6 weeks since i posted about the Titans, must be a record :pac:

Not much happening..
Sankey is signed, Lewan is not.

It will be done before TC i have no doubt.

Locker seems to be progressing well, reports on the WRs seem to be ok aswell.

Sankey seems to be impressing but Greene apparently is still carrying his injury.

Battle has been tried at FB but would prefer Mooney, he's a savage blocker.

You do realise he's now our player!?

Yep by some bama fans who then ran like pussies!

I think he'll start 2 games this season.. Betting you won't watch those!

Lewan signs, levitre got his appendix out so is missing 2 weeks of pre season

4 years 11.5 I think, not sure what the delay was about but at least he's signed pre camp

By all accounts his foot is in very good condition, assessed at the start of camp and did some stationary throws and drills but has been doing more mobile stuff on his own.

Realises this is a big year and is playing for a contract and perhaps a nfl future, knows he has to stay healthy and will try to balance that with qb runs that make sense, knows he needs to protect himself.

On another titans site one of the lads posted lockers Grudens camp, locker smashes a line back using his throwing shoulder, on the next play he gets knocked out because he slid head first.

Also said this is the most talented offence he's played with, whiz and the team captains had the pre camp presser today, all said they fully expect to make play offs and not a team in transition

Needs to be smarter this year, the defence should keep us in games so jake needs to be sensible and on the field for the titans to win

Really just want the season started tbh!

We've signed Quentin groves, may be just camp fodder but given he was with the browns last year he'll know hortons defence

Dohnny you'll love this, Mett is taking reps at QB, Pollard is screaming "roll tide" from the sideline

Quick recap.

Mike Martin has been dominating at DT
Hunter caught every ball and made some tough catches, same with wright

Mariani, sankey, Washington all took reps at pr/kr then Washington blew chunks on the field.

Nate had a go at one of the practice squad due to holding.

Pollard has been taunting the offence but so far the offence seems to be doing pretty well.

Locker has looked very comfortable

On Sirius they had a 2.5 hour segment on the Titans.
some of the main points

view that Titans are a good shout for a wildcard and could go further if D and Locker are healthy

Lot of depth on the 0-line

Lewan is likely to play TE in some jumbo packages, so we'd have 3 tackles, 2 TEs and a Greene in short yardage situations, Lewan says his hands are pretty good

Lewan also said he likes being nasty, a view to him being a great blocker with Big Country attributes, realises he needs to keep anger in check and not give away stupid penalties.

Dex expects to catch a lot in the backfield and do some trick plays.
I expect him to do a lot of WR motion rushes

Nate says the team is really pumped and senior players like Pollard, Walker, Philips, Woodyard have really instilled a winning mentality, training is better and more intense because these guys are used to training that way and its rubbing off on other players


Also the starters will play about 15 snaps versus GB on Saturday
Hopefully we dont get any injuries.

Greene played well the big question is can he stay healthy, but I expect sankey to get the majority of snaps from about week 6 onwards

Mccarthy is done, had surgery last week.
I expect we'll pick up a ILB somewhere from cuts.

Greene hurt is knee but will be fine he says.

Hunter is a bonafide beast, he is going to be our best offensive wepaon i think this year.

Mariani has been returning punts/kicks but will likely see some more time @ WR in games 3 and 4, seems likely he'll get times with the starters in game 3.

Taylor Thompson is really doing well, he's speedy and a good blocker, the only criticism seems to be that he waits for the ball to come to him rather than sticking his hands out to catch.

Wright is playing well along with Nate.

Lockers passes were for the most part of target on Friday however he still has a tendency to aim high, which caused a few jump catches, that works with Hunter and the TEs not so much with Dex or Wright.

Mett did ok, 20/25, 200+ yards, 2 TDs 2 ints, 1 of which was an awful throw, the other was the WRs fault.

Sankey did well, he's not a speed machine but he's pretty solid, i think he average about 5.5 YPC on friday behind the second string O-line.

Sadly it looks like Mooney is going to lose out to Battle for the FB position, I'm not keen on this. While Battle has looked good, Mooney was fatastic last year and iirc graded out at one of the best FBs at blocking.

Coffman who is a UDFA TE seems to have really good hands, some analysts are saying that we'll either keep 4 TEs on the roster or Stevens could be released

At kicker, it looks like Coons is edging the battle, it seems that his leg is a fraction below Bonani but he's more accurate. Frankly i'm not a fan of either and would prefer we pick up a better kicker whos cut or re sign Bironas.



Defense is now a massive concern.

We were shoved all over the field in both first drives so far, there seems to be a view that will happen then Horton will adjust as we have been better on 2nd and 3rd drives, but basically thats saying we're happy to give up points.. not acceptable.

We are not getting penetration in the middle and not coollpasing the pocket so when the dge rushers are actually making it round the tackles the QB is stepping up and making the throw.
Da'Quan Jones looks good and i would hope he could see more game time.
Casey is not having it easy up against the tackles with their extra one step at the time.

Our OLB pass rush is basically no existent at this point and our ILB are not stopping the run.


Sensabaugh got horribly burned twice on a deep route which is a concern, i expect BWW to get the nod there.

Griffin/pollard are doing fine, a big surprise here is Damion Stafford he's been doing well.

I hope to see Huff get some some good time at CB aswell, Wooten has also had a few snaps at Safety.

I would expect one of these to get the nod as they can play CB/Safety.

The titans boards have been pissed at this, how are we more forgettable than
The Jags, we sell out our stadium each week, they cover half of theirs cos no one bothers going

BIlls? Who? Exactly

3 years ago the Seahawks were nobodies

Broncos, manning made them relevant

remember the titans!!

Casey has been extended, no details on value yet