TITAN PRAYBOOK

TITAN FEELING THE HEAT, SOCCER UPGRADE PLAN UNVEILED

  

HUNTER SEASON MAY BE OVER

The longer the Tennessee Titans have Justin Hunter in tow the longer the inept wide receiver prolongs his destiny: as another Titans castoff shuffled off to Jeff Fisher and the Rams. It’s likely he would already be adjusting to the smog in Los Angeles if not for getting shelved due to an injury last season.

TITANS TREATMENT OF MARIOTA BORDERS ON THE CRIMINAL

   Get this man some receivers. Here are the facts, the Tennessee Titans during the preceding two seasons, 2013-14 and 2014-15, were one of the worst football teams in the history of the NFL.  I would say in the top ten worst all-time without even looking up the statistics to prove such. Sure, that illuminates how they have many needs to fill to improve substantially. But is this, the current crop of receivers, really the best the Titans brass can do in supplying their prize young quarterback, Marcus Mariota, reliable route runners and pass catchers? He's a sleek and ready Lear jet with no flight path.

ANSWER TO HOW AMERICAN CAN BECOME SOCCER ELITE

   It’s not our sport.  Let’s stop there. The reasons are many why our top America soccer teams are not on par with the world’s elite soccer teams, why there appears to be little progress year after year in fielding a topnotch unit of soccer players. It’s a favorite topic of debate for radio sports talk shows around the nation in looking for ways to fill airtime. The answer is simple, and never has the answer been broached before, not until now. Field a team of black players. That’s right, get black youths involved somehow, someway, and in due time America will be great in soccer the world over. It has worked superbly in the NFL and in the NBA. See, that wasn’t so difficult to figure out now, was it?

2016 Tennessee Titans Welcome New Season

2016 Tennessee Titans as seen from crow's nest, me being the crow.

Season finish: 8-8 optimum, 6-10 more likely

Biggest deficit: No receivers
Biggest asset: Delanie Walker

COMEDY TIME RERUNS COMING UP
In observing 60-plus years of pro football, Dorial Green-Beckham is the worst receiver I have ever seen. Don't rattle off his stats to me. Those were balls he somehow managed to catch. It's the ones he didn't catch, and how he looked in not catching them, that remain real headscratchers. It's not so much that he failed to haul them in as it is how he reacted to the throws. A receiver is supposed to always be looking for the ball, no matter what play was called. You run your specified route, make the look, and assume it is coming to you every time. But he, with the pretentious hyphenated surname, looked like someone new to the sport just pulled off the streets. And they call it professional football.

PERISH THE THOUGHT?
How can Perrish Cox even be on the team? The guy did not even attempt to tackle a runner going into the end zone in a game last year. It's as if it never happened. He should have been gone before the next sunrise.

TAYLOR UNMADE
Taylor Lewan. His name comes up sometimes regarding whether or not he might be moved to right tackle, creating the assumption he would be all right playing tackle on the right side in lieu of the left. I am not one to make that assumption. Too many bad things happen on his left side. I am not sure he would be even adequate at any position on the offensive line.

IT'S YOUR RECESSIVE GENES, CHIEF
The obnoxious, arrogant, and on the wrong side of everything -- okay, I should just cut to the chase and say Yankee -- Paul Kuharsky, recently said on 104.5 The Sports Zone, after admitting having trouble reading the small print on his computer, "I don't want to show my age," meaning he did not want to pull out his eyeglasses. That's not an age issue Chief, it's a vanity issue. With Kuharsky though it's not either. It pertains more to his recessive genes: bald early, needs eyeglasses, probably hard of hearing as well.