Game Thread: Week 7 Titans vs Patriots

[Callidus]

4 minutes ago, TeamRamrod said:

I think it’s important to remember Latham did NOT look like this until the hip injury. He was consistently great in training camp (competition level aside) and in joint practices. It’s way too early to throw the towel in on a young offensive lineman like this.

He looked pretty damn bad down the stretch last year. 

[NFLStudent]

2 hours ago, oldschool said:

 

again, the offense moved the ball consistently on their firs 4 drives, Ward had his best half of the year and they scored 13 points in the 1st half which was just .8 off their game average in 2025. I don't fault the offense for sucking the rest of the game once they were down 18 in 3rd quarter. That means the pats D didn't have to respect the run or Play action and could tee off on Ward which like I said, exposes the main weaknesses of the OFF roster, OL and weapons. 

 

Do I expect the offense to drop 21 points in the 1st half next week against the colts and become a top 15 unit the rest of the year? of course not but for a hald when the full playbook was available to them, they looked better. Why we can't admit that is beyond me...

"We" can't admit that because they didn't win. And when you don't win, everything sucks. Thems the rules for many. 

[NashvilleNinja]

Just now, oldschool said:

 

please tell me thats a joke?

 

I was paraphrasing, but that was the thing he led off with. "There's gonna be so many things situationally blah blah blah... I mentioned wind to you..."

 

It's roughly 17 minutes into it.

 

 

 

[TampaTitan]

God these coach pressers are almost as bad as the team 

[NashvilleNinja]

 

 

[oldschool]

The only guy in local Titans media worth a damn imo. Hes spot on here.

 

 

[NashvilleNinja]

1 hour ago, Mythos27 said:

I see it more like this:

 

Me: this team is a shit sandwich, The core of it is shit. This won't taste better until we remove the shit and replace it with something edible. 

TR: Well sure it's a shit sandwich but we REALLY have to change the bread. If we change the bread from white to wheat it'll taste much better.

Me: I guess it's possible but honestly it won't change all that much because the core of the sandwich is still shit so regardless of which bread you use it will taste terrible.

 

TR: Are you saying we should just keep the white bread? The white bread? The white bread is terrible. We're going to replace the white bread with wheat.

 

Me: Ok...

 

Bread change is made and bite is taken

 

Me: Like I said, the sandwich still tastes like shit because we didn't address the core issue, removing the shit. It's going to continue to taste like shit until we do and no putting pickles in it won't help much.

 

TR: How dare you not acknowledge how much better the wheat bread tastes!? And now you hate pickles!? What is wrong with you!?

 

Me: Jesus Christ...

 

This gave me PTSD. Were you water tortured at Gitmo (aka Titans Report, aka Titmo)?

[TeamRamrod]

10 minutes ago, oldschool said:

The only guy in local Titans media worth a damn imo. Hes spot on here.

 

 

Sometimes Zach has some garbage takes like about how they should fire Borgonzi after week 1 or about how the staff was stupid to put Dike at returner over Proche but he’s definitely one of the best local guys 

[oldschool]

 

 

[NashvilleNinja]

1 minute ago, TeamRamrod said:

Sometimes Zach has some garbage takes like about how they should fire Borgonzi after week 1 or about how the staff was stupid to put Dike at returner over Proche but he’s definitely one of the best local guys 

 

The best local guys are still bad. Lyons and Bishop are probably the only show you can really listen to for an extended period of time, but they do and say plenty of things that grate on your nerves. Buck's show is unbearable, save for when he has someone on that actually knows what they're talking about, like Cosell.

[TeamRamrod]

36 minutes ago, Callidus said:

He looked pretty damn bad down the stretch last year. 

Good offensive tackles have slow starts to their careers all the time. The Joe Alts of the world are extremely rare.  Guys like Andrew Thomas, Garrett Bolles, and Dion Dawkins were all REAL bad. I’m not saying I think he’s gonna be amazing or not (who knows), but we’ve seen flashes of greatness and it’s just way too soon. The reason the teams like the eagles, packers, ravens, colts, and bills etc always seem to have good offensive lines is because they let guys develop no matter the early results. 

Edited October 20, 2025 by TeamRamrod

[TeamRamrod]

In this very division, you can see it. Go look at the colts right now and see what picks they’ve spent on their offensive line. How many of them are free agent signings? Do they just have some mystical power to find these guys? Or do they have a a system in place for these guys to develop with time? All the teams I mentioned in the post before it’s the same thing 

[AussieTitanFan08]

53 minutes ago, TeamRamrod said:

I think it’s important to remember Latham did NOT look like this until the hip injury. He was consistently great in training camp (competition level aside) and in joint practices. It’s way too early to throw the towel in on a young offensive lineman like this.

 

If the Titans are going to fudge the injury report and not have Latham on it and he continues to hurt the team with his poor play they are doing him a disservice.

[NashvilleNinja]

39 minutes ago, TeamRamrod said:

Sometimes Zach has some garbage takes like about how they should fire Borgonzi after week 1 or about how the staff was stupid to put Dike at returner over Proche but he’s definitely one of the best local guys 

 

Speaking of Lyons, he just called out Buck for his comments he made on his show this morning about Titans fans "weird obsession" with Mike Vrabel. Buck, the guy who went to Vrabel's press conference yesterday and was basically tag teaming with Russini to scob his knob all last week.

 

Gotta say I appreciated that from Lyons.

[TF_Titan]

1 hour ago, oldschool said:

 

please tell me thats a joke?

 

I'm not saying I agree with the decision, but there were actually pretty strong gusts. It wasn't just breezy. It sounds like after discussing with Bones they decided it wasn't worth trying a long FG and giving the Patriots a short field if they missed it. Again...not saying I would have made the same decision, but I can see the reasoning.