Number9 Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 Will we seize the opportunity to become a dominat franchise? Tommy Smith. Hires Whisenhunt, pays him a monster salary. Tommy gets fired. AAS takes over and fires Whisenhunt. AAS makes some positive changes. AAS decides to make the largest decision a GM has to make. She hires W's assistant to be head coach. She makes the hire before getting a GM. AAS then hires a GM. GM comes in and makes great trade to build the running game. Then GM makes record breaking trade for team's number one draft pick. GM picks All Pro tackle, as well as other good draft picks. Byard GM makes trades to build up OL. GM has another good offseason. He appears to patch D, but D starts getting double digit sacks. GM addresses Special Teams and Titans special teams are greatly improved. Things go well for a while. Then trouble starts. QB is the secret weapon in the running game. QB gets hurt. AAS's handpicked HC continues to call designed runs for hurt/injured QB. QB is a bad ass who leads the Titans to wins. Injures continue to nag QB. QB appears to regress. HC continues to call designed runs. HC throws players under the bus. Then HC tells the world QB is hurt, has been playing hurt over half the season, so no wonder team hasn't looked good. It's not the head coach's fault. Who's in charge? AAS? JRob? JRob has shown himself to be very knowledgeable about NFL football. JRob is young and has his hand on the beat of today's NFL. JRob has connections with one of the best run franchises in NFL history. The Titans after going 5-27 over the two years before he came now have a roster full of new players and are rolling on a flat toward their second winning season in the two years he has been GM. AAS or JRob? The franchise has done almost a 180 since AAS took over. She has improved the game experience and the team. Now we have a pure football decision. Win out. Lose out. It doesn't matter. Whatever happens after this season will show what kind of franchise this is. A good one? Or a bad one? Are we going to be Pittsburgh/New England? Or are we going to be Cleveland? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnasty Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 Titans will never dominate under Mularkey. Mularkey— prove me wrong! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 9 minutes ago, Number9 said: Are we going to be Pittsburgh/New England? Or are we going to be Cleveland? Well that depends on if we fire everyone (highly unlikely) if we lose a couple more games. If we make coaching changes every two years, we're basically going the way of Cleveland. I don't think this will happen and hopefully the people in charge won't cave to fan pressure any time soon like the retards in Knoxville do. They're going to probably make a few assistant changes with everyone's contracts coming due, extend Mularkey, and attack another offseason personnel wise and continue to build this team according to Robinson and Mularkey's vision/identity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnasty Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, tgo said: Well that depends on if we fire everyone (highly unlikely) if we lose a couple more games. If we make coaching changes every two years, we're basically going the way of Cleveland. I don't think this will happen and hopefully the people in charge won't cave to fan pressure any time soon like the retards in Knoxville do. They're going to probably make a few assistant changes with everyone's contracts coming due, extend Mularkey, and attack another offseason personnel wise and continue to build this team according to Robinson and Mularkey's vision/identity. This is the most realistic answer. There’s plenty of teams that are mediocre to good season to season. Chargers, Cowboys, Broncos, saints, Texans to name a few. All it takes is 1 season to get hot to win it all. 2 of the teams above did do just that. I don’t think we’ll ever see another dynasty like the pats again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number9 Posted December 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 minute ago, tgo said: Well that depends on if we fire everyone (highly unlikely) if we lose a couple more games. If we make coaching changes every two years, we're basically going the way of Cleveland. They're going to probably make a few assistant changes with everyone's contracts coming due, extend Mularkey, and attack another offseason personnel wise and continue to build this team according to Robinson and Mularkey's vision. So, you think JRob is all in with Mularkey? I don't get into calling out the offense we run, but it's just not nearly as explosive as our weapons. I admit the WRs don't look good, but the scheme's we run are not easy on them. If we were hanging 150+ rushing yards on teams, I could see smash mouth making sense. But it's just not happening. Murray/Henry should be at equal to Zeke Elliot. If we are going to roll out there talking about our tough smash you in the mouth game, we should have one to back it up. Especially is our formations place so many resources into the run. But whatever, this team should be hanging 31 consistently with the resources JRob has put into the offense. Look at DLB by comparison. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 minute ago, Number9 said: So, you think JRob is all in with Mularkey? I have no reason to believe otherwise based on everything I've heard from the horse's mouth and read. They've always been really on the same page, they spend a lot of time together, and Robinson is always preaching the same things Mularkey does. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number9 Posted December 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 I think the team would possibly be further along if the pass was the focus of the offense. If they come out with the pass working, then Murray and Henry would eat teams up. Running out of pass formations would get the RBs in space more and we might see more of Henry's big runs in the first half. Then after we have the lead, the heavy sets could control the clock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 8 minutes ago, Number9 said: I think the team would possibly be further along if the pass was the focus of the offense. If they come out with the pass working, then Murray and Henry would eat teams up. Running out of pass formations would get the RBs in space more and we might see more of Henry's big runs in the first half. Then after we have the lead, the heavy sets could control the clock. The pass will likely never be the "focus" of the offense under Mularkey. His philosophy is run-first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanDuckFan Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 In circles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aramis Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 26 minutes ago, tgo said: The pass will likely never be the "focus" of the offense under Mularkey. His philosophy is run-first. Unfortunately. Hard to imagine in 2017 a run-first mentality still existing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, Aramis said: Unfortunately. Hard to imagine in 2017 a run-first mentality still existing. Well, we're 9-7 and 8-5 thus far with this philosophy, so apparently there's something to it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, Soxcat said: I really believe if Mariota was a more seasoned QB and we had the weapons in place we would see more passing. Think about it. His first stint in Buffalo they rebounded from an 0-4 starts and scored more points in 6 straight wins than any team in that span in history. That includes the Jim Kelly led teams and without a premier QB (Loseman and Holcomb). This is a guy who was OC of the year in 2008 with the Falcons. Sure he likes to run the ball but that doesn't mean he is going to force that if he has players to execute a passing game. Yeah of course, the passing game in this offense is very highly effective when everything is humming, but either way it's built on the run game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aramis Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, tgo said: Well, we're 9-7 and 8-5 thus far with this philosophy, so apparently there's something to it! I guess so. Are there other teams in the league who adopt a run-first mentality to the extent we do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 JRob would be smart to force the change now. If we keep Murk for another year or two, they both could be at the unemployment line. GMs are only as good as the person coaching the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
japan Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, Adams said: JRob would be smart to force the change now. If we keep Murk for another year or two, they both could be at the unemployment line. GMs are only as good as the person coaching the team. They just need to give JRob the ability to fire coaching staff personnel. He evidently doesn't have that ability now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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