Justafan

Would I have liked to see more? Sure. Am I worried? Nah, it's preseason, so ... meh.

Hope you guys are right on Singleton, but I have a feeling we may be crowning him early here.

He's not wrong about it being a different game. I think reasonable people can appreciate both of them as great players in the same way that people admire both MJ and Kobe.

Base has never meant what you just inferred and never will.

Maybe. I’ll believe that when I see it.

That’s not what that means. Base defense means base personnel. It isn’t just the defense you’re in most often. Football 101 stuff here.

You are welcome to your opinion. Just don’t make stuff up by pretending you’ve figured out something no one else is smart enough to see or that the Titans have shifted their fundamental base defense when they clearly haven’t.

Almost no team in the league has 3 TEs that actually scare you in the pass game. The Titans can easily shift personnel for the matchups where they will face more TEs. They don't need to fundamentally change their base package to do that or create a new position.

I'm willing to believe that more TEs will be used this year and that teams will adapt. That doesn't persuade me that the basics have changed.

Dane Kruikshank played the position he's describing a decade ago. It's not new and the Titans haven't made up some new position because the Rams decided to run 2 TE last year.

Yes, I assume that Saleh is going to run the same defense he's been successful with, because he told us he was. There is 0 reason to believe that Saleh intends to change the defense like you are suggesting. Even the unofficial depth chart they just released has Diabate as the starting SAM. Why? Because that guy lines up on the LOS.

Define "a lot".

Yeah, that's how many DCs deploy their LBs but that's not how Saleh uses the SAM. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Saleh deploys his base defense.

Many of the posters here complained for months because the Titans didn't trade up to go get him. It's a good reminder whenever I forget for a moment that most of them are dullards.