Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Is Zach Mettenberger the future?


Last Sunday was horrible to watch, but as educated fans, let's not freak out and abandon everything Mett has done to this point. I wanted Mett to play through they injury. He showed toughness and genuine care for our franchise. That speaks volumes about his character as a guy who knew he would get hit a lot. With Hunter, Wright, Oher, Lewan, and Stingly out, what could we expect from him? Is it realistic for us to think that Mett would come in as a rookie playing with Hagan, Durham, and a decimated O-line to hang 40 points in a win? No.

I have to blame Whiz on this one. I know he wanted to open up the playbook to see how Mett could handle his offense but at some point you have to pack it in and play to live another day. The defining moment in the game was when Mett got blasted, got up slowly, looked over at Whiz and gave him a grimacing thumbs up. Mett continued to play through a tough shoulder injury. I love it! That is Brett Favre type stuff. Now Whiz needs to understand that Mett is giving himself up to try and make something happen, and adjust the game plan so he doesn't hurt himself.

It is not time for Whiz to get fired but he needs to learn from this. I only say this because I have seen team hit rock bottom and then be playoff contenders. Usually we are always around .500. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise. We will have a lot of flexibility in the off-season to draft a ton of players to fill our holes, especially on defense.

We are not in contention for the playoffs so when Mett took a shot dial down the offense and play for next week. Whiz believed in Mett and kept trying to go deep. I understand Whiz and his philosophy but at this point in the season put your ego aside.

Now I keep reading all of our fans' comments all over the internet and the jury is split. Half have given up on Mett and half want to see him with a decent O-line. What do you think?

It only makes sense to give Mett another shot, in my opinion. He showed a lot of promise, poise, and toughness literally playing in a horrible situation all year. It is not fair to evaluate him based on the lack of production around him. We struggled as an entire team the entire year minus the KC and PIT games. 

For as bad as the Giant - Titan game was Mett's performance against the Steelers makes up for it! He played well, made plays and overcame the worst start to your Monday Night Football debut. That is the Mett we will get with a good o-line and he will only improve with an entire off-season of work.

Also, drafting a rookie QB will just lead to another year of growing pains and such. Mett is on our team and we have so many other problems that why not give Mett an entire year. If he is absolute garbage then we can draft someone. There is no rush. Patience is the key with the Mett Show. He has all of the tools and he has toughness. He is perfect for Nashville. Give him the chance to be "the guy" and not just a rookie trying to get the job.

The Titans would benefit by giving Mett another year and trading their top pick much like the Rams did with the Redskins. The Rams gave their QB another chance and went out and built a defense. Now everyone is saying they are a QB away from a great team. But they built a dominate defense. I personally think Mett is better than Shaun Hill. If we can build a defense and let Mett develop then I would say our team will be much better.

Trade our pick, move down, draft Amari Cooper and then with the remaining draft choices address the entire defense and some pieces on the offensive line.

Then we will get to see a young QB with a bunch of weapons and hopefully some time to throw. Then every one will be on the Mett Show bandwagon.

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Monday, December 1, 2014

The Off Season can't come quick enough!

There are so many laughable, disgusting, and down right hard to watch things about the Titans right now. The product on the field is as bad as it ever has been and the sheer lack of excitement would seem to damper the view of the future. As mortified as I am every Sunday, I am surprisingly optimistic for next season. But first let's highlight the bad.

Off Season Acquisitions:

Ken Whisenhunt - Coach Whiz was regarded by the media as being the single greatest signing of the Titans' off season. I was weary of those expectations but I also wanted to believe that a new coach with Super Bowl experience would get our players into the right spots so we could finally have a scary good offense. I am not advocating for Whiz to be fired but his performance has been poor the entire season. On that note, so have many of the players and we expect them to get better in the future so I will hold out hope that Whiz, having a year under his belt in Tennessee, will perform better next season. I firmly believe he planned on the season being an awful one. He didn't want to start Locker and intended on his plan to ride with Mett, Lewan, and Sankey as the Whiz future. I am okay with that. Our Wide Receivers need to be better beating one on one coverage but that will come with consistency as the QB position. Our team is exciting, on paper, but it will take a solid off-season and faith in Mett to produce a playoff team next year. Plain and simple, Whiz needs to step up.

Delanie Walker - Dude is a straight baller and will be Mett's cushion for years to come. No need to elaborate here. We all love the guy.

Dexter McCluster - The Titans literally signed him a minute after Free Agency opened up. Obviously they wanted him and have had plans for him. This season it isn't happening. I don't really know who to blame here but if our offense is going to be successful I think McCluster will be a big part of that. We have seen flashes, but do to our poor execution overall Dexter has not had a lot of impact. He will be better next year, pending Whiz getting him in open space. (How many times have we said that about our coaches ugh!)

Michael Oher - Eh...He's not horrible. I don't have much in the way of evaluating him. There are times he is a strong RT but other times he looks lost. Who knows! He is the best option on the roster right now unless Stingly is better than we think.

Taylor Lewan - I think this guy is an ANIMAL. He has breakdowns and sometimes stupid penalties but he is competitive and he likes Mett so I think he is the perfect fit for Zach's blind side. I feel bad for Michael Roos. Maybe if he wants to stay in Tennessee he replaces Oher on the right?

Bishop Sankey - I wouldn't say he is an upgrade from Chris Johnson at this point. CJ2K had home run potential every play and always made defenses stack the box, something we have severely underrated. Sankey is shifty but I swear the guy's long run of the year is like 9 yards. I know that is over exaggerating but I don't feel like he has any big plays. I like him and McCluster in the future though.

Zach Mettenberger - We have found our franchise QB now it is time to be patient. I know I crowned him the "guy" a few weeks ago and probably prematurely, but he is the perfect fit for our city and our fans. He has swagger, toughness, and arm talent. I think the guy is going to be a franchise guy who will end up giving Luck some memorable battles for years to come. Now let's just hope his shoulder is okay and he guts through it. If he does that, I am all in for this guy. Give him another off season and more weapons. I am all in on the Bandwagon. But then again I have been since his first start. Zach is the only reason I turn on the TV on Sunday just to see his progression.

Here are my grades for the future of these pickups. Basically I think Mett, Sankey, Walker, and McCluster will be solid players for the foreseeable future. Whiz, well we could do better we could do worse. Oher is just a stop gap until we find something better, low risk signing.

Whisenhunt C+
Walker A+
McCluster B
Oher C
Sankey B
Mettenberger A

Let me hear what you think and let's have a discussion. We suck this year, but so did the Colts right before they drafted Luck! lol

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