What Is the Titans' Offense Missing?

I think the word you are looking for Glinks is consistency. That is what is missing..from the coaches to players..and it's annoying as hell.

 

I don't think we lack anything at all at this point. It's week-3 first off, and the only reason you can justify saying we're missing something is based off 3-4 quarters vs the Steelers, a defense everyone has acknowledged as seriously dominating. If we can't muster together 21+ points on the Giants, then maybe we should reevaluate what we are doing offensively. Supposedly the Raiders defense was something of a test and we used and abused that team. Time will tell, and after one bad outing I'm not hitting the panic button. You know how cautious Jeff Fisher is with the Steelers, he was playing it safe 100% of the game. You can't always do that when facing a top team like Pittsburgh, and we saw why.

Also take into consideration that the defense is playing great. As long as Jeff Fisher knows his defense will challenge the opposing offense, he'll be very reluctant to ask much of his offense. last year when the defense sucked, the offense was forced to turn it up. It's not the offensive players that aren't getting it done, its Jeff Fisher not getting it done.

 

"Alter their approach to give him the best chance to succeed??" LMAO
Name another active QB that has been an NFL Rookie of the Year and played in 2 pro bowls while havingn more career INTs than TDs. Find another NFL QB in the history of the NFL with a season MVP that had worse stats than McNair in 2003. You willing to bet money on Billy Volek ever throwing for 400+ yards again like he did twice in Tennessee? Go back and check out how many 13 win seasons Kerry Collins has led teams to.

Jeff Fisher is blessing for Vince Young. He'd be done with anyone else.

 

Jeff, this is a highly intelligent, factual post yet Titanswillwin2 says it sucks. I don't know how you deal with these guys that only agree with posts that has nothing critical of their lord and savior Vince Young but it sure seperates the fan boys from we that understand football, imo.

 

To me, I believe this is a philosophical thing with Fisher. If you look back at Dinger's experience with the Broncos(twice) and Jets, he has no problem with opening up the offenses, and having a strong running attack. I think those comparisons speak alone.

But then you also have to figure in the question: Does Dinger have the confidence in VY to allow the same freedoms and open up the playbook? so there may be MAY BE two factors in play here.

 

Good points. Who knows? Although to me, looking at the big picture, the main goal of this year should be figuring out whether or not Vince can be the guy they want him to be. And the only way to figure that out is to just go for it. Open up the playbook and let VY either flourish or fail. You won't figure anything out by continuing to limit him and yanking him when things are going south. Maybe he would step up to the plate and surprise some folks. And maybe guys like dbc will turn out to be right and Vince fails miserably. We'll never know if coaching refuses to take off the training wheels. IMO the absolute worst thing that could happen this season is for it to end and us still not know what we have or don't have at the QB position. I'd hate to see Vince go elsewhere and be lights out. And even moreso I'd hate for us to "think" he's our guy going forward, renew him, and then find out that he's not able to take it to the next level.

 

I totally agree with you. Just like last year, once VY was inserted, it's like everything was opened up because of our "we have nothing to lose" mentallity, but early on it seems we may be over-conservative again? Which points back to philosophy, and not handcuffs right? But then again, Fisher never re-cuffed McNair, so that's what makes me ask the question if they truly have total confidence in VY.