I don't care about the Jersey Joke.  In of itself, I'm not mad.  But on top of being a crappy coach who makes bad personnel decision and bad game decisions and really doesn't even appear to want to win and quitting on the team last Sunday, it pisses me off.  Greatly.  This season is one big ball of pissed off.  Jeff Fisher, you quit on the team, made piss poor decisions, and most of all ruined an entire football season for me.

Jeff, and know this.  You are dead in the water.  Done.  Toast.  After 14-some years, you can't keep out-running bad decisions.  And you can't keep winning without being willing to change and sometimes significantly.

I respect Bud Adams position to not fire you mid-season, but I think it is the wrong decision.  And I'm sure he will at the end of the season. 

No Owner in his right mind can keep a coach after giving no effort in a game.  After quitting on the team in route to a 59-0 embarrassment on national TV.  Below the fold I'm going to lay into Jeff Fisher.  He and only him, is to blame for this mess.  Rant on

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Being the eternal skeptic I am.....I am not feeling good about our current record and season outlook.  Gone are the days of being the best team in the NFL.

And the schedule ahead looks brutal.

What happens if we are 1-5 going into the bye week?  With our only win coming against the division-bottom-feeding Jags?  Time to panic?  Switch QB's?  Fire someone?

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Vince....

Unless you are completely clueless, never watch TV, never read the paper, never read the internet, and only talk to your Mom, I have some bad news for you.

Everybody hates you and think you are not a good NFL quarterback.  They do.  Seriously.  Not only does everyone now believe you are 90% down the road to bust-ville, everybody thinks you will be unemployed by next February (at the latest).  In fact, many think you won't even be the backup QB this year. There isn't a single NFL fan outside of Tennessee or Texas that thinks you are any good at football and likes you.  Probably 75%, maybe more, of Titan fans hate you and think you suck.  Luckily, you have a small contingent of fans left in Texas that still like you.  But you need to forget about them as soon as possible.  Never talk to them again.  That is your first piece of advice.  More to follow below the fold.

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I'll make this short and sweet.

Roos is the best Tackle in football.  He is the most valuable player on the best team in football.

He has stonewalled every great pass rushing team from the Vikes to the Clots to the Texans to the Ravens to the Steelers.  The Titans lead the league in fewest sacks allowed thanks to Roos.  No way we are 13-2 if Collins hits his backside more often.

Plain and simple.  Roos should be the MVP of the NFL this year.

I'm reading steeler blogs and message boards....and I'm amazed at the amount of uproar over White and others stomping on the yellow kitchen towel.

I'm watching ESPN and Tom Jackson and Trent Dilfer is flipping out about it.

I'm reading SI and Don Banks is beside himself that the Titans would do that.

I can understand some Steeler fans being pissed at that....understandable....

But I think the reaction to this is way overblown....it isn't like the yellow kitchen towel is the American flag or anything.....

The steeler fans were not even in their own stadium......do they not think waving that yellow kitchen towel wasn't disrespectful.  I went to Reliant stadium last week and although I yelled and cheered for the titans, I can understand the texan fans being mad at me....

I just don't get why so called impartial pundits are thinking this was such a big deal.....

And for a really good laugh, you need to go to certain steeler message boards.....I litterally read people saying stomping on the towell was worse than pissing on the picture of the pope...

hahahahahahahahahahahaaha

it's just a freaking yellow kitchen or bar towel.....get over it....

I went to the Titans-Texans game and I think I saw the start of one of the biggest late season collapses ever of a 12-1 team.

Losing to the Texans....Losing Haynesworth....

And I now think we lose to the Steelers, then lose to the Colts and limp our way into the 2nd round of the playoffs, where we lose to either the Colts, Steelers or Ravens.

It will be one of the biggest collapes ever....from 12-1 to losing 4 in a row...

I have no confidence in Collins...teams are stacking the box and our pathetic group of WR's can't beat single coverage.  Against the Texans we were mostly throwing deep in order to get a flag thrown, not actually trying to make a completion.

The coaching staff is making bonehead decisions....plays are predictable and bland....run plays are taking too long to develop....pass plays might be the most low percentage pass plays in the league...

our defense is playing decent, but without AH and KVB, we are nothing...without AH we have no chance to stop the run....

Finnegan is playing his heart out, but his personal foul penalties are killing us.....

And teams can pick on Harper if they want....I thought the Texans were stupid for not continuing to throw at Harper....

We are all going to complain about going for it on 4th and 3 and not QB sneaking it on 4th and inches against the Texans...and with good measure....

those 2 calls are the start of what might be one of the biggest collapses by a 12-1 team ever....

if one good thing will come out of losing our next 3, it will be that maybe Schwartz doesn't get a head coaching job...

Hey guys....

just wanted to tell everyone i'll be there sunday in reliant stadium cheering on the titans.

i'm sitting in section 132, row U, just above the tunnel the titans will use.

i'm super excited.....looking forwarded to cheering on the titans and jawing with the texan fans...

i'll have my iphone with me and will try to post in the game thread....if someone that will be posting in the game thread gives me an email address, i'll email photos I take during the game for you to post in the game thread....

go titans.....screw the colts......and the texans too!!!

56.6% Completion Percentage.

2 Passing TD's in 4 games.

Only 6.95 yards per attempt.

Thank god we got Vince Young out of there.

Every media outlet, local and national, repeat the same theme.

Kerry Collins is showing how much better he is than Vince Young right now.

And it isn't true.

If Vince Young had the same completion percentage as Kerry Collins right now, he'd be getting killed.  In fact, last year Vince was over 62% and got killed for it.  Collins is at 56% and is getting praised for it.

If, no when, Vince Young was over throwing WR's on deep passes last year, he got killed for it.  This year, Kerry Collins is over throwing virtually every long pass he has thrown.  And he is getting praised for it.

If the Titans had only 2 passing TD's in 4 games under Vince Young, he'd be getting killed for it.  In fact, last year that was all we averaged and Vince got killed for it.  This year,  Collins is getting praised for only 2 TD's in 4 games.

Listen, we can't have an unstable, emotional QB.  And if that was what Vince would be this year, he shouldn't be in there and I support that decision to keep him on the bench. 

But let's not confuse the stats and the production.  The defense is carrying this team.  The running game is carrying this offense.  The offense is bad in the 2nd half this year.

Praising Collins is ridiculous.  The passing game has been just as bad as before.  The only difference is that the INT's are down slightly.  The completion percentage is horrible and is worse than Vince last year.  How can Vince's completion percentage last year be such a red flag but a completion percentage lower than that be great?

Is everyone ready for a constant soap opera regarding the Titans QB position?

The tension started last year as Vince had some unsightful moments at QB.  The tension surrounding Vince was alive despite the Titans making the playoffs.

The tension was muddied with the fact that the WR is pathetic.  Even the most adamant Vince haters admit the WR's are pathetic.

The tension surrounding Vince is also accelerated due to not looking like a typical QB.  He isn't white.  He is athletic.  He isn't afraid to run and in the past has excelled at running.  He reportedly did poorly on the Combine Intelligence test, which stoked the flames for thos saying he was stupid.  Most NFL observers expected him to suck his rookie year and refused to acknowledge he played well.  This is perfectly seen in Meril Hoge.

And now the opening game WIN has served to throw a gallon of gasoline on the Vince-Media-Fans-Titans-QB tensions.

Reports are that Vince is out 2-4 weeks with a torn MCL.

But what will be talked about even more will be the series of events that led to the injury.

After Finnegan made a great INT on a crucial 3rd down, Vince immediately threw an INT on a flare pass to the RB.  The throw was too low.  And the DE made a great play.

Coming off the field, it was apparent, Vince was beating himself up.

The cameras showed him on the bench with his head in his hands and Dinger next to him.  After a quick 3 and out, Vince was late getting on the field and Collins was warming up.

Fisher says it was because of Vince's hammy being tight.

The media says it was because Vince quit.

I've heard this story from those at the game.

On the sideline, Dinger was mad at Vince and told him he "would be Collins in".  Vince yelled back "go ahead" and then took off his helmet.  Fisher then intervened and got Vince back on the field, which 4 plays later saw him hurt his knee.

Some of the quotes from the players were interesting.  For instance, Bullock said something like "no one will quit on this side of the ball." Hall also said he doesn't know what is going on with Vince.  Scaife said Vince would never quit.

Either way, the tension surrounding Vince just went up 100 fold.

Clearly, the local and national media WANT there to be tension around Vince.  Just wait and see how much media attention this story will get.

The fans want there to be tension, as they booed Vince after the 2nd INT and will no doubt flood messageboards, blogs and sports talk radio with criticism of him.  And it will clash with those that defend him, thus raising the tension.

The players probably don't want tension, but will be hard pressed not to stoke it when pressed with multiple questions a day from the media about it (Fisher was asked 5 times in a row about the sideline incident).

Vince does not do enough to curb the tension.  He gets defensive when the media grills him.  He sulks on the sidelines.  Most of all, he isn't improving his play at a fast enough rate.

I have and will keep defending Vince.  He's a product of the atmosphere that is created around him.  2 years of dealing with Chow (who tried to force a square peg through a round hole).  2 years of throwing to inadequate WR's that couldn't start for half of the D1 college football teams.  2 years of listening to a media that wants to see him fail and prove their opinions right. 

However, I just can't see this thing having a good ending right now. 

And if this Vince-related tension derails a season where we might have the #1 defense in the NFL at a time when the Chargers, Colts and Pats look beatable, me and every other fan is going to go crazy.

In the next few weeks, I'm guessing that the calls for Collins to be the full time starter will be muted by Collins playing terrible.  Doesn't anyone remember why Vince played his rookie season anyway?  It was b/c Collins was 0-4 and had the offense playing bad, really really really bad.  This year will be no different with Collins. 

But just b/c Collins plays bad doesn't mean the chorus of negative comments about Vince will cease.  In fact they will likely go up even further this season even if Collins plays bad.

This year, a great defense and run game are going to be overshadowed by tension surrounding Vince.  The media and fans alike will make sure of it.

Today, the Titans were smart.

The extended Cortland Finnegan through 2011.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080815/SPORTS01/80815037/1027

This was a must do move, IMO.  I'm glad we used our cap space on extending our current group of core players.  Finnegan is clearly one of them.

He is going to become, IMO, the best CB ever to wear Ttian/Oiler jersey.  Teams will not want to throw his way this year.

The deal is "worth roughly $17 million over the next four seasons, and it includes roughly $8.5 million in guaranteed money. He’ll receive a $6 million signing bonus, and a $500,000 base salary for 2008." (via Tennessean)

The 7th round pick was set to make ~445K this year.

Last year, Finnegan played so well, that he led the team in money given to players that play better than their conrtracts.

Great Job Titans!

Now just go find a CB to play next to him that isn't named Reynaldo Hill or has multiple concussions.

Oh ya, next up (IMO).....extending Fuller.