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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ReplyDeleteKC was always waiting for McCluster to do more than show "flashes". Not sure you want to hang your hat on McCluster being a key contributor to your offenses success. The only "tweener" RB/WR that has had any real success was Sproles, and he is still more of a 3rd down back. I think you would be asking for a miracle from your Head Coach/OC to ever make that work.
ReplyDeleteYeah that was my first impression too. I thought Whiz could use him like he did Woodhead in San Diego. I mean CJ2K is averaging 4.6 YPC on the worst team in the league. All of our RBS combined are not even close to the 10 TDs that Cj had last year. But that is a whole different topic. I think Dexter and Bishop could work off each other. All of that hinges on if Whiz can show some "flashes" of his "Offensive Genius" though. Whiz never catered to Locker so in a way he was just waiting until Mett could be inserted so he could get some experience. Whiz has a free year this year but if there are no improvments watch out!
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