http://www.titansradio.com/cgi-bin/blurb_view.cgi?blurb=news655141

It starts off sounding like Fisher is going to sit players who underperform.
Sounds reassuring.

Until you get to the part that seems to indicate that KFC is exempt from this standard of performance.

As you can tell by looking at my "Join Date" I'm a little new around here.. who the heck is KFC?

Kerry Collins. Fill in the blank on the "F."

Kerry Collins. Fill in the blank on the "F."
Would you rather have McNair? I would.

Would you rather have McNair? I would.

For a cap hit of $27 mill, no way dude

For a cap hit of $27 mill, no way dudeWait a minute!! Who's fault is that?

Wait a minute!! Who's fault is that?

Noone. Thats just the price for maintaining a Superbowl/playoff team for several years.

Noone. Thats just the price for maintaining a Superbowl/playoff team for several years.This won't come out the way I really mean it.. but one superbowl appearance 6 years ago isn't a good enough excuse for paying your QB 27 mill. I'm not an employee of the Titans so I only know what I read during the offseason. But from what I read it doesn't seem like the Titans tried very hard to come to a new agreement with McNair. Comments?

Much of that $27 Megabuck figure is pro-rated signing bonus and such.
It was a "cap hit" of $27 million.

The final score may not reflect it, but the Titans actually made a LOT of big plays last week....on both sides of ball.


Pacman's punt return. Sure, it was called back, but Pac made a play when the team desperately needed it....the sign of a true playmaker.
Scaife's TD catch....highlight reel stuff.
Drew Bennett's 36-yard reception early in the game....gave the offense a badly needed boost of energy.
Ben Troupe's 32 yard catch-and-run to put the Titans in scoring range
Cortland Finnegan had a big sack and recovered a fumbled punt.
Calvin Lowry forced that fumbled punt, and had a HUGE hit on another punt return...absolutely decked the guy
Keith Bulluck's sack and forced fumble against Culpepper


Unfortunately, the team made several big mistakes to offset these big plays, and allowed the Dolphins to make several big plays of their own...together, these eventually cost us the game.

But the silver lining is undeniable....the Titans made their share of big plays, which we haven't seen in a long, long time. All they gotta do is keep that big-play mindset, while finding a way to eliminate the mistakes and prevent opponents from making plays. Easier said than done, I know....but as soon as they find a way to accomplish this, the Titans will be a very dangerous team, indeed.

get young starting, lamont and hill out, and were good to go

This won't come out the way I really mean it.. but one superbowl appearance 6 years ago isn't a good enough excuse for paying your QB 27 mill. I'm not an employee of the Titans so I only know what I read during the offseason. But from what I read it doesn't seem like the Titans tried very hard to come to a new agreement with McNair. Comments?

Three sides to the story:
McNairs
The Titans
Somewhere in the middle the truth.

Bottom line is he didn't show that he wanted to stay here. Also if we'd re-done his deal then we would have only postponed the problem of his cap hit. We kept redoing his deal & pushing the hit back to a time where eventually his best days were behind him.

The length of players contracts has been limited the past 2 yrs by the hangups over the collective bargaining agreement between the players & the teams. The best thing that has come out of that is that teams have had to move away from backloading contracts, a practice that ends in cap hell.

McNairs deal was the last of that type to hurt us financially & hopefully we'll never see those days again. Didn't the Cowboys still pay for some of the stars of the 90's two years after they'd gone?

If he'd stayed we wouldn't have picked up the free agents we did.We made the right choice,next year we're rumoured to have $42 mill of cap space .

He hasn't been on top of his game since 03 so his price was too high. He did very well to get $12mil out of the ratbirds.

You get a guy in the situation to make a play; he has got to make a play. If it happens again then you have got to find someone else who can make that play, it is pretty simple.

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we're all waitin' coach

Guard Benji Olson, a Titan/Oiler since 1998, said the Titans just need to improve, and that lineup changes could potentially lead to more problems.

"It would be good motivation for some guys to know that their job might not be secure. Maybe they'll start doing better, whatever,'' Olson said. "But there's good things with that and bad things. You want a guy to be in there the whole time and get consistent and get a feel for things, but we'll see what happens.''

maybe benji's a little afraid he's going to get benched?

probably him and the whole line except for mawae should be

get young starting, lamont and hill out, and were good to go

Sit the dreadlock guys and put our future in, We are not making the playoffs so put Vince in the starting lineup and we have a better chance to win some ball games and in the same time we groom VY.

The final score may not reflect it, but the Titans actually made a LOT of big plays last week....on both sides of ball.


Pacman's punt return. Sure, it was called back, but Pac made a play when the team desperately needed it....the sign of a true playmaker.
Scaife's TD catch....highlight reel stuff.
Drew Bennett's 36-yard reception early in the game....gave the offense a badly needed boost of energy.
Ben Troupe's 32 yard catch-and-run to put the Titans in scoring range
Cortland Finnegan had a big sack and recovered a fumbled punt.
Calvin Lowry forced that fumbled punt, and had a HUGE hit on another punt return...absolutely decked the guy
Keith Bulluck's sack and forced fumble against Culpepper


Unfortunately, the team made several big mistakes to offset these big plays, and allowed the Dolphins to make several big plays of their own...together, these eventually cost us the game.

But the silver lining is undeniable....the Titans made their share of big plays, which we haven't seen in a long, long time. All they gotta do is keep that big-play mindset, while finding a way to eliminate the mistakes and prevent opponents from making plays. Easier said than done, I know....but as soon as they find a way to accomplish this, the Titans will be a very dangerous team, indeed.
Finnegan has been part of several big plays, and he isn't even a starter.

Finn is a CB. Most of his plays have been pressure on the QB. That only shows he can get in the back field and get to the QB. That is not bad but our CBs need to cover revivers. Maybe a reason he has not shown up much in coverage?

Finn is a CB. Most of his plays have been pressure on the QB. That only shows he can get in the back field and get to the QB. That is not bad but our CBs need to cover revivers. Maybe a reason he has not shown up much in coverage?
Maybe he's where he needs to be then, in when we need something to happen and on special teams.

Maybe a reason he has not shown up much in coverage?
he was pretty good in coverage in the jets game. had a nice pass break up.