I'm sure all of you have heard about the big push we're giving to trying to sign Manning into being a Titan. It's awesome, actually, when you think about it hard and long enough.

He truly is the greatest of all time. Better than Steve Young, Cy Young, Bo Jackson, and even the almighty Vince Young. The players he played with in the Superbowl to win it? It was like he was fielding a college team! Reggie Wane, Pierre Garcon, Steve Novak, and even Andre Smith at TE!

The Saints superbowl was just a fluke. Remember how the Saints coach at the time, Boomer Esiason, told Devery Henderson to tell Johnny Blaze to ride in and intercept the ball from Payton Manning for the game-sealing INT-TD? I mean, Payton Manning tried using his awesome God powers to make the ball float sideways to Reggie Wane, but it just didn't work in time. Stolen, definitely! The NFL fixed that game.

Anyway, here we are. Payton Manning went out for the season in 2011 because he tried eating pure uranium and had to let his neck heal. Some say he gave that to Iran. I don't believe that for a second.

The Indiana Colts, his old team, went 0-14 and missed the BCS National Championship game. They let Manning go because someone asked them to suck for luck. Dirty Harry may have played a role there.

Regardless, here we are. The Colorada Tebows and your very own Tennessee Volunteers, err, Titans, are going after the big giant God of football. Amazing, isn't it?

Just think of the possibilities. When Payton Manning signs with us, like Bud Adams wants, the NFL will automatically award us a Lombardi Trophy entering 2012 just for that! Then, Tennessee jerseys sales will go through the roof, so will bobblehead sales!

We will no longer have seating attendance problems, that way we can finally measure up to the Jags fanbase's dedication to their home games. So, more money for us, more national media attention, Payton MF'ing Manning, and 1 Superbowl already won in a month! How can it get any better?

Oh, it will.

Payton Manning will point his finger at Nate Washington, and suddenly, like a good neighbor, All-State Nate is there, with Kenny Britt's hands and Alshon Jeffery's fat .. turned into muscle. Then, Payton reaches his hand into the space-time continuum, and grabs all the good receivers of old. James Harlow, Jacob Tammy, Dennis Roddman, Richard Munro, etc etc.

The next twenty years? Payton will become immortal (joking, obviously, he already is), cure diabetes, make oil from gold then make gold from chocolate, and most importantly of all, win 20,000 Superbowls. Maybe even marry Pratt's sister.

Nashville will become the new capitol of the world. Murfreesboro will be like the Arlington of the world, I guess. But that doesn't matter. Tennessee will be the new utopia of the world. Imagine it. Golden lakes, Payton Manning statues EVERYWHERE, and the MCM Jet... well, it'll still be frozen on the landing pad, but only because there will be a new PMM Jet. Yes. Payton Manning Miracles. Because that is the future, ladies and gentlemen.

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Think we should resign him? Think he's too expensive? Think we can win without him?

Well, that's not what this post is about so don't worry about that right now.

I just want us to focus on Finnegan's time in two-toned blue prior to 2012. Whether or not he stays in it or goes somewhere else is out of our control at the moment.

Hit the jump. You know you want to.

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As many of you probably have seen by now, there's a noisy movement of people calling themselves fans of the Titans that want Peyton Manning to come to Tennessee.

Everybody is entitled to their opinions, and here's mine...

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MCM, we have a problem. It's not breaking news, but it has been overshadowed by the suckiness of CJ and the offensive line.

It's called the Titans receiving core, and if you haven't noticed, it's hurting our offense arguably as much as the running game's woes are.

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There's been a lot of Ruud hate over the past few weeks, that's for certain. Some of it tends to go overboard, yes, but how much of it is really justified? Well, he has given up a whole lot of points.

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This was a great win for our squad, coming off a disappointing second half "performance" against the Bengals. I'd like to just go over a few things I noticed in this win.

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The Tennessee Titans have four wins, and four losses. They are mediocre, they are bad. Their younger players are inconsistent, and their veterans are playing bad. Their front office came up with a complete free agency bust in Barrett Ruud, resulting in their linebacking core being weak as ever. Their expensive superstar running back has sputtered and is struggling. Their defensive line is either underachieving or not as good as they appeared to be early in the season. These are your NFL Tennessee Titans in 2011.

Now, here is how our season has gone so far.

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I'm going to be highlighting ALL the reasons our run game is last in the league, because this isn't just one thing. This a combination of woes.

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Yes, a silver lining exists here.

Now, I watched the same game everyone else did on Sunday. In the first quarter, CJ couldn't get it started (again) and the passing offense was struggling mightily. The best offensive play came on a defensive PI on a deep Avery route.

When the Titans were down 3-0 heading into the second quarter, I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. It was inevitable. The Texans WERE going to score points, and we looked like we did in Pittsburgh, and in Jacksonville. So, of course, we only mustered one TD in garbage time and got blown out in a game we should have at LEAST been competitive in.

So, what did I do? I had the natural knee-jerk reaction. Doubt set in immediately. Doubting if Munchak really the right coach for us. Doubt about if CJ is EVER going to get a 100 yard game this season against a team not named the Browns. Doubt that our passing game could succeed without Britt.

Then, of course, something happened that made me realize things could be much worse.

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I actually typed this up for myself, out of curiosity. After reading about how Vegas is basically opening with the Titans and Texans at even (+3 Titans because of us being at home) I wanted to see just how even this matchup is.

Turns out, there are some advantages for both teams.

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Let's just think about how the season has gone so far.

We opened with a shaky game on the road in Jacksonville, which was part lockout jitters and part Hasselbeck having to adjust to a new offense in an actual game situation. We lost because Hasselbeck didn't have his timing down, and our defense couldn't adjust to stop MJD.

The next game was the Ravens game at LP Field. After our performance in Jacksonville against a team with McCown as their starting QB, and the Ravens coming off a huge beatdown of the Steelers... the majority of us in the Titans fanbase felt like we didn't have a chance. We ended up having a perfect game and catching the Ravens being overconfident. Better redzone effiency, and that would've been a blowout.

After that, we played the Broncos at LP Field, and our team reverted back to Week 1 form (but honestly, coming off such a stellar performance against Baltimore, anything less than a perfect game would've been reverting). We killed ourselves with penalties, and our offense sputtered at times. We lost Kenny Britt for the season on an awkward play. However, we managed to come back from all of that and score what would eventually be the game-winning TD.

Then, we played the Browns in Cleveland, a team that was as shaky as we were. In this game, we came about and played at the level we saw in Baltimore. Poor McCoy kept getting fooled by our defensive schemes, with the announcers constantly commenting on his uncertainy in the pocket. And eventually, the Browns defense caved in. We blew them out.

After the Cleveland game, our team traveled out again to the land of the Steelers, who were coming off a letdown against the Texans and sitting at an unstellar 2-2 with their only wins coming against the Manningless Colts and the Bengals Seahawks. The Steelers used both their annually alloted 'practice in pads' leading up to the game against us. We were coming in at a surprising 3-1.

The Steelers did what we did to the Browns. The Steelers did what the Ravens did to them earlier in the season. They blew us out. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Hasselbeck and the WR's weren't in sync and their confidence was quickly fading. When we started off the game driving down the field and our momentum screeched to a halt thanks to Polamalu disrupting a Nate Washington TD, it never truly got started again.

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This is probably a really bad and noobish idea, but here it goes.

I learned recently that unless the Niners are playing, Thursday Games don't normally show up in the Prediction Games. And so I thought of a brilliant idea. And when I say I thought of it, I mean a friend did.

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Many of you heard the news that the Washington Redskins have decided to open up talks for trading Albert Haynesworth back to the Titans. Many of you have formed your own opinions on that, of course.

Some of you applaud it, others see how he behaved with the Redskins and think he's now too much trouble/money to sign back.

But... most people aren't getting the full picture.  Let's recap how this whole ordeal unfolded.

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     As you may know, the Titans are going to have to decide where to cut off some slack soon. And one of the most difficult places to decide that is going to be at the halfback position. Chris Johnson is in. You'd have to be under a rock six feet underground not to know that. But what about the other athletes competing for the spot?

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