Undue treatment

McNair and Mason played for the Ravens?

 

on a more serious note...having been mostly keeping up with the McNair news on tennessean.com, and a little on espn.com, i thought they mostly showed Steve as a Titan.

On the other hand... if I did not know any better i would think D Mase is, and always has been, a Raven.

 

CC is right on the coverage. The researchers definitely went to the most recent section of the archive footage for all the "short clip" stuff that would loop during a repeated blurb about Steve. And that crap sucked. Like the rest of the nation wouldn't remember Steve more as a Titan than a Raven. Ridiculous, imo.

On the other hand, this offseason, the overall opinion by the national media of the Titans org, the team, its moves, its coaches, etc., has taken a nice step toward appreciation and in growing cases, adoration. I understand your perspective, and it's right on regarding the Big Titans' Diss that people tend to have about our team, but I've caught some real nice bits over the last few months that lead me to believe we're returning to as-good-as-that-glowing-attention-gets-for-a-small-market-team status that we held the five years before the last five. Some topics:

Titans sign Nate Washington. Seemed like the obvious move and we did it.

Titans select WR with first pick. Seemed less likely since we got one in FA. This was like overcompensating in the eyes of many! Whoa, Titans go WR crazy. Added one big name and two rising small school stars also in the Heimi mold in Dominique Edison (6th) and Dudle Guice (UD).

Media not making a big stink about Titans collapsing without Haynesworth. Most analysts contend Titans will defend title against Indy (or rather battle with Indy for it with Houston being a wildcard and Jax likely struggling). I think some of this is due to the fact that Albert couldn't make Tennessee look bad without looking pretty questionable in his big interview about why he left and the Titans didn't try harder to retain him. In fact, I think a lot of people got the impression that Haynesworth came off like a spoiled jerk. Or maybe that was mine. Either way, he did, and the org hasn't felt repercussions of opinion as a result. So, not bad!

The Titans OL has been well-considered from all sources I've read or seen. We can argue that it's the best, but I've more heard from big outlets "2nd behind the Giants." Not bad. We have Johnson, White is under 235 lbs., and that's not working against us, either.

We just lost the heart of the last (or first) Titans epoch, but this incarnation is reaching its prime. Through it all, we have Jeff Fisher, who I think now everyone can see why he's a made man among coaches, players and NFL personnel alike. He got the title of longest tenured coach last year, and now people see he's got just about everything else that goes along with it. I've heard some say as they got older, they started rooting for coaches of teams, because the players they loved so well had gone. I think Fisher might have more people rooting for him now than any other single player on our team, and that's including media personnel.

I think things are turning in our favor. We'll know for sure once the season starts, because then it'll be entirely up to the Titans' play on the field. But I think we'll be fine.

 

The Ravens completely blow

 

Now we just have to beat them.

 

I would've considered Mason one of the all time Titan greats until last season. McNair has be mostly shown in the 2 tone blue.

 

I consider what footage espn chooses to show of McNair and Mason, by in large, a non issue. Maybe that's just me, but I really don't give a crap.

 

One thing to keep in mind is that the networks may have looked for footage that was shot in HD, because their current broadcasts are HD. The switch between using SD and HD cameras as the norm for sports was happening around the time McNair and Mason left, so the networks may not have much HD footage of those guys as Titans.

Not the most scandalous explanation, but a pretty plausible one.