schwartz must go: the 2007 edition

It's not like people are calling for Schwartz's head based on one quarter of football this year. It's a trend... a career if you wanna call it.


No fan, coach, or player should be happy about 29 points in 1 quarter. I personally didn't like Schwartz postgame comments either.

I would be against making a move during the season, but certainly this defense needs to be watched for the rest of the year to accurately determine Schwartz future here.

Of course it doesn't matter since Schwartz is Fishers boy.

 

I really don't understand how you can say ANY talk of replacing him is garbage. Talk of replacing him has been going on for a long time.

We ALMOST gave up one of the greatest collapses of all time. Sage Rosenfels through for 290 yards and 4 tds. Those 4 fourth quarter TDs tie an NFL record. Kubiak said, "they got the lead and didn't actually blitz as much."

Our team has a trend of playing soft late in games. We became much more predictable at the end of this Texans game and that has happened way too often under Schwartz D.

Schwartz should be on the hot seat all season. Let him earn his job, and when bad, no horrible, defensive issues happen, he deserves the criticism he gets.

 

Our defense is much better and is playing much better. Sure, Schwartz deserves some credit.

But let's finish the season before we start saying he should definately be sticking around as DC for awhile.

I'm also not going to be going back and watching all 23 previous quarters of football this season. I will say that at the Tampa game the defense played excellent all game, UNTIL the last drive where Tampa drove at will and scored the game winner.


TJ, are you buddies with Schwartz in the real world? I know you're obviously a diehard Titan fan, but I don't understand how you can ignore Schwartz career history here and just praise the guy blindly.

I mean, the Houston game was one of the GREATEST COLLAPSES OF ALL TIME, we were just lucky KFC and Bironas pulled out the win for us in the end. And I can't put all the blame on the players, like Schwartz did.

 

I agree Jeff and IMO there is no reason to be getting overly worked up about one bad quarter of football. I'm sure the coaches and players all take credit for the lousy quarter, offense and defense but we won the game.

Using that same logic we should get rid of VY. He has had bad quarters, halfs and games. The bottom line is the Titans won the game and the 4th quarter was a fluke more than anything.

 

It's hard to explain the turnaround in the Titan's D this year without giving some credit to Schwartz. Almost last to #1 run D with no personnel changes on the line? Lost our best pass defender and the pass D is actually improved? I'm critical of Schwartz for some things, but those are tough stats to argue against.

As much as we all hate the "play to not lose" strategy that feels like it costs us games - Fisher has the highest win percentage of ANY COACH IN HISTORY taking a lead into the 4th Q. Better than Lombardi. Better than Madden. That's crazy, and as scary as it is trading clock for points and yards - it obviously works.

IMO, the biggest problem the past 2 weeks has been something that does reflect on Schwartz. I've seen too many DBs get burned when they had good to perfect position... all because they appeared to go for the INT and missed. I know Schwartz preaches turnovers, and it looks like the players are reaching a bit instead of taking care of business. I love the big INT, and if you have it then get it - but like a receiver... go get the ball in a way that you are the only one who will come down with it.

If the players are reaching and losing discipline it's either coming from the directive of the coaches, or it's coming from themselves and it's the coaches job to put and end to it. Either way, this D needs to play within themselves. When they do we've seen what the Schwartz D is capable of - TJ posted the stats up until the 3rd Q. 2 first downs (and 1 of those was just the AH penalty). Then we had some players relaxing and others reaching - and the coaches need to take control when they see that.

 

Schwartz was too young when he was given the DC job, and he continues to learn on the job, which is sometimes painful. He never should have been given the job to begin with.

And the special teams coach has been suspect every year since the MCM, I believe. Pacman's returns last year took some heat off ST's, but look at how teams return our kickoffs to the 35-40 at will, and our punters have made too many tackles the past few years.