It's all on Grier. The guy couldn't scout a QB if one landed in his lap. Trading Tannehill away? trading for Rosen? Right there are two trades that should get you fired and this is the guy Ross wants to determine who our next QB will be. I can almost guarantee whoever he chooses will be the wrong choice We had part of an oline and could have drafted a RB like Minnesota'S MATTISON so this idea the time had come is bunk. The fans had no patience, that is all. Blame the fans, blame ross, blame Grier or blame all of them. But don't think this was the right move unless everything falls into place. If Flores IS THE NEXT Belichik and Grier is the next Ozzie Newsome and our next QB is the next Aaron Rodgers then it will be the right move
Agree. Philbin is probably the worst coach we ever had. He's worse than Cameron because he lasted three years
Jmo, part of being wrong on his evaluation after 6 years here, comes down to not trusting he can make individual plays when needed, at this point pairing him with such a dominate back, a good oline, and a proper scheme that took advantage of his dexterity on roll outs, was his personal recipe..that’s where the mistake was made on our part..live and learn.
There is a clear difference in the way games are called in the post season. QBs have to be accurate because DBs get away with a lot more. Running the ball is easier because the Oline gets away with more. QBs are also going to take some shots that would draw flags in the regular season. Tennessee with Tannehill is built for it. Big, strong, accurate QB, paired with the best power back in the game, and a dirty mauling Oline. Add a physical mauling defense. Lot of mauling happened yesterday. Loved it, old school football.
For everyone who doesn’t want to give Tannehill any credit, read this FIVE 100 yard games out of 56......
Looks like The Tannehill Titans will be playing the Texans. Nothing is going right for the Chiefs today. I'd say Tannehill has a vey good chance to play in the Super Bowl now!
Gase blew chunks. He's a fraud HC. No one should even remotely attempt to stick up for that idiot. Tried to (and still does) approach the game from a fantasy football perspective. Ignores the fundamentals, defense and the trenches, all the while pretending that all that is needed is a QB to be successfully in the NFL. Completely bass ackwards. A fiery train wreck. Every QB in the league ever.
I dunno...Titans usually have a VERY tough time with the Texans. Especially AT Houston. They beat them there in week 17, but Houston rested starters. Their backups didn't do too bad either. And that was after losing like 6 straight at Houston.
Too bad Kelce wont be able to do that against our LBs. Evans and Brown are one of the youngest talented duos in the league. Both against the pass and run. However our CBs arent all that great , so Hill will probably have a career day
So you see the difference here today between getting up early on a team that doesn't have a QB who can use the passing game to score very efficiently (the Ravens and Jackson), and getting up early on a team that does (the Chiefs and Mahomes). Obviously that 14-point early lead the Titans had yesterday wouldn't have meant nearly as much against the Chiefs. So I was wrong in expecting that Tannehill would need to play a high-volume passing game to compete with the Ravens, but he certainly may have to against the Chiefs.
Wanny was bad, but at least was a solid coordinator at one point. Philbin was never a good anything beyond one helluva sanitation engineer.
Assuming KC wins, the AFC conference championship is going to be real interesting, just stylistically if nothing else. It almost represents a battle between old and new. Titans are like a throwback to the old days where the RB was a centerpiece of the offense, the QB is a pocket passer, and (for playoff teams) the entire team is well rounded. KC is the type of offensive juggernaut made possible by rule changes favoring the passing game with a new generation QB at the helm: a mobile QB that is also a great pocket passer. My prediction is the style more fit for the current rulebook (KC) will win but who knows. It's a copycat league (for good reason) and if you can win the SB with an offense centered around a dominant RB a lot more teams will move in that direction. On the other hand, if KC wins the push for QB's like Mahomes will continue unabated. I really like Mahomes.. kind of like a Marino of the mobile QB age.
Apparently the highest scoring playoff game ever (combined points) was 51-45 (with OT) where the Cardinals beat the Packers in the 2009 season. Two more TD's in this game to tie that combined points record for postseason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoff_records_(team)#Scoring
Reading is fundamental... https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf.../sp-id-10401000002142075??ocid=ocid=INSSPBD10
I feel like the Titans have a better chance against KC than Houston, so that's the game I was rooting for. I agree though that it will have an old-school feel to it and I think the game will ultimately be decided in the 1st quarter much like the Baltimore contest was. KC is more built for playing from behind with all that speed where Tennessee will wear you out on that power attack if you let them. For me, the one big wildcard in the whole thing is our boy Ryan Tannehill- how will he respond if they get behind and he has to attack the field drive after drive? This is the most excited I've been for the playoffs in my adult life and I'm 46...it's painful that we have seven long days until the next chapter! I'm predicting that Tennessee wins by 1-3 points on a late drive by Tannehill.
While I'm happy for Tannehill, as he seemed like a decent guy, I can't believe some of the hype and hysteria about him on here. He was, still is and always will be, a bang average NFL QB. He's fallen into a set up that seems to suit his style and is doing enough to get the job done. Fair play to him but personally, I believe that we were right to trade him when we did.
Hey Cbrad, what are the odds that an average QB leads the league in passer rating? What about the odds that an average QB ends the season leading the league in multiple statistical categories?
Just saw the score of the KC vs Hou game. That's disgusting. What an embarrassment of an NFL game. Gross misrepresentation of professional football.
That is not really true. Titans can control clock with a beast of a RB. There's no way Titans would of lost a 24 pt lead like the Cows did.
I'm really torn here. I've been on the RT17 bandwagoon since day one. I'm also an Andy Reed fan from way back and love what he doing with the Chiefs. Now Tannehill or Matt Moore are going to the SB. Let that sink in for a minute.
If you take the league-wide distribution of passer ratings and simulate 32 passer ratings chosen from them, and do that 1,000,000 times, on average the z-score for the #1 ranked passer rating is 2.07 which corresponds to a probability of 1.9226%. Answering the second question is not as clear cut because you have to define the set of statistical categories you're going to look at BEFORE the season plays out. You can't after the fact say you're only going to look at one particular set of statistical categories (that gets into cherry picking issues). So the probability there all depends on the number of categories you chose (past tense) initially. Anyway, passer rating is a good summary stat for passing efficiency so just go with ~1.9% probability of leading the league IF you actually are an average QB on an average team.