Comments on: TJB Scout: Tennessee Titans

By: john

john — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:51:20 +0000

If you read the comments from Mangini about Dave Ball in his press conference, you will see there is a mutual respect, and he obviously liked him. Just because a player is candid does not make him a moron, coaches understand that.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:00:04 +0000

Dave Ball is a moron.

By: Eddie DiGio

Eddie DiGio — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:45:36 +0000

I just read that Dave Ball comment. My respect and admiration for Mangini is growing by the minute. That s ridiculous and Dave Ball should be ashamed of himself as an NFL player. That’s like when the Yankees let go of Ruben Sierra and he said “all they care about is winning”

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:25:17 +0000

This will be a tough game. Jeff Fisher is one hell of a coach. He will have them prepaired for us. We can win this one though, I do believe that. We’ll just have to hang in there and gut this one out. I don’t believe this one will be decided before the fourth quarter.

NOTE: The Titans are the second most popular team in Tennessee.

By: Harvlis

Harvlis — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:43:15 +0000

Good points Andrew.

When you look at the stats, Tennessee looks beatable but, there is one thing they do where they are ranked number one – They know how to win.

This won’t be easy but, if we play to the level of our ability, we’re going to win this game.

By: mole57

mole57 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:52:06 +0000

Bassett,

here it is:

http://www.thejetsblog.com/2007/08/10/former-jet-dave-ball-on-mangini/

By: Bassett

Bassett — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:39:14 +0000

Wasn’t Dave Ball (not the WR) very critical of the Jets once he was out from under Mangini’s thumb? I can’t find a link … but I remember him having something to say about Mangini ..

By: Andrew Weiss

Andrew Weiss — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:21:48 +0000

One small quibble with the numbers from the ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ department. Tennessee’s rushing stat is inflated by a ridiculous game against Kansas City where they gained 334 yards. If you look at their rushing performances over the season, they’ve been wildly variable (much more than the Jets) with two performances below fifty yards, a low of 20 yards against the Bears and the inflated KC number for a high. If you remove their highest and lowest gains, and compare that number to the Jets, they’re almost identical 973 to 968 yarss for the Jets running game. So, on balance, the Jets running game is roughly the same as the Tennessee game. The Jets, however, have had three games gaining 200 yards or more while the Titans have had only one game above that level, for what it’s worth.

As for the TItans’ passing game, it has been dismal until the past two weeks. The impression is that it was always good but had simply been shelved because it wasn’t necessary, but that’s not accurate. They have NO receiving threat at wide receiver whatsoever (notwithstanding the rookie’s performance last week) and their passing game, engineered by the lifeless and unimaginative Mike Heimerdinger, has been historically toothless.

I offer these notes to add a little flesh to our evaluations this week. The game, of course, will be decided by execution. Moreover, we are not without our own weaknesses. Our advantages, fwiw, are Favre if he plays within the system, explosiveness out of the passing game and the ability to stop Tennessee in what they do well forcing them to win with skills they are not known for or particularly skilled at. Let’s not forget, the Titans were picked to go 7-9 pre-season, just like the Jets. This isn’t the Patriots. 10-0 is undefeated not flawless.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:29:36 +0000

Everyone in the titans secondary has 4 interceptions. So Favre has to be careful.

The jets game plan has to be similar to what other teams will start doing to the jets. Go No Huddle.
Get Haynesworth to drag his feet and not put up a battle against our OL.
Do the no huddle and go for 4-6 yards at a time, which will tire out the defense and will force tennesse to not go no huddle on us because theyll need to take their time to give their defense some rest.

By: IRA

IRA — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:24:38 +0000

Actually the Jets matchup better against the Titans then they do with the Broncos. Oh yes Hentrich should have been a Jet back in 1993 if Colset didn’t cut him.Since then the Jets have had 14 different punters.