It’s been a busy couple weeks for us: trades, rumors of rebuilds, a new QB, shifting focus midseason, so I’d love to hear from you on pretty much anything pertaining to the Titans and/or this game. Even so, I have some questions of my own.
- What do you think of Arthur Smith so far? Tannehill had a career year under him, and regressed with the lush Todd Downing succeeding him. I’ve seen a lot of frustrations over the job he’s done going into Year 3, so I would love to hear what you think of him.
- How have former Titans like Bud Dupree, Jonnu Smith and others done for you? These guys haven’t done as much as we thought they would have been through their flashes, so I would love to hear from you.
- Teair Tart’s coming back to anchor the run defense, so which skill position do you think is going to take over this game? The secondary lost Kevin Byard through trade, so this pass defense is looking probably even weaker than it’s been the last couple years.
- How has your offensive line done in pass protection as opposed to run blocking? Lindstrom and Matthews have been staples, but what about everyone else?
- Looking at your defense, it has greatly improved from what we’ve seen in recent years. What has driven this? Despite having only 13 sacks, the unit managed to rank top 5 in yards allowed and top 8 in points. Is there a position group like the defensive line, linebackers, or secondary that’s been going off, or is it all three groups going nuts?
- Are there any pending free agents that you would love to have back as opposed to guys that you want/need to part ways with?
I work as a mod for r/Tennesseetitans, so please keep in touch with me through modmail if anyone in our sub gives you trouble not that I anticipate it with hardly any history between our two clubs, and I’ll make sure to keep in touch with you own. The charity that we’re sponsoring for this week is Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, so feel free to donate whatever you feel comfortable with. Anyways, I look forward to answering your questions and for tomorrow’s game.
In terms of points per game and yards, we still had AJ Brown and Taylor Lewan albeit the latter recovering from an ACL tear, so the offense regressed, but not nearly enough to overcome the defense turning from a laughingstock to elite that season. Once AJ Brown was out of those 2021 games, we generally lost, so you can understand why the trade was so bad.
As for Tannehill, we have to move on. We’ve defended him for the last several years, but he’s 35 and showing every year of his age. I anticipate him having a few more years of bouncing around as a backup before signing a one day contract with us to retire. Regardless, we got a lot more out of that scratch ticket to Miami than we had ever thought we would. I wish there were more than what we got, but when we got as many division titles each and combined AFC titles from him leading the way as the likes of Deshaun Watson and Andrew Luck, it’s hard to complain about that.