Colts @ Titans: A rundown of first half mistakes

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  1. TitanJeff

    TitanJeff Kahuna Grande Staff

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    The Titans continue to implode on so many levels. Let's look at some of the more glaring mistakes:

    On their first drive, the Titans stop the Colts and get the ball on their own 20. They overcome Hall's first holding penalty before Crumpler fumbles the ball on the Titans 33. Brown has his offsides and Manning hits Wayne on the fourth-and-one pass which was a pick play, IMO. Six plays, 23 yards.

    7-0 Colts.

    On the next possession, Britt drops the third-and-two pass. Titans punt but recover the muff. Here's where Mawae has his illegal block above the waist which ends up leading to the first Bironas FG.

    7-3 Colts.

    After the pick by Bulluck, the second Hall holding is followed by a Gage false start. A ball that was on the Colts 30 is now on the 45. After the nice pass by Collins, Fisher decides to kick the FG from the Indy 25 on fourth-and-one. This was a huge mistake, IMO. The Titans had the momentum and needed to get the TD.

    7-6 Colts.

    Titans D stops Manning and the Titans decide to take a shot on a third-and-one from their own 46. Again, I don't understand why the Titans didn't go with White here. Even the sneak probably would have been the better option.

    Colts then drive down the field 81 yards for the score on just 11 plays. Manning worked out of the shotgun for most of this and hit a ton of passes in the 8-12 yard range all under the safeties who were playing deep. The longest reception of the drive was 19 yards.

    14-6 Colts.

    Titans mount a nice drive that stalls with just a minute left in the half at the Colts 28. Bironas hits the 46-yard FG.

    14-9 Colts.

    At this point, the Titans are very much in the game. Hopefully, Cecil adjusts some things at the half and the Titans stay with their offensive game plan. But Manning then goes down the field with the help of two roughing the passer penalties which leads to the 39-yard TD to Collie with just 25 seconds left in the half.

    21-9 Colts at the half.

    Titans get the ball starting the second half and Collins throws the pick. The Colts get a short field again and easily score.

    28-9 and game over just five minutes into the third.

    They gave Manning a short field on two of his four TDs. They gave him 30 yards of penalties on the final drive before the half. The play-calling on third and fourth and one was insane, IMO. You have drops by receivers, some poor run blocking, some indecisive running by CJ and a number of horrible passes from Collins to add to the mix.

    The Titans are simply a bad team and there is plenty of blame to go around. I honestly don't think firing Fisher or putting in Young begins to address the problems. It's basic execution, IMO. Unless the Titans can find a way to limit the mistakes, they won't win a game anytime soon.
     
    #1 TitanJeff, Oct 12, 2009
  4. desfletcher316

    desfletcher316 Occasional visitor

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    True. When do we play the rams?
     
    #2 desfletcher316, Oct 12, 2009
  7. Hoffa

    Hoffa Freak you you freakin' freak

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    I'm just thankful the Lions became the first team to go 0-16 last year...
     
    #3 Hoffa, Oct 12, 2009
  10. Riverman

    Riverman That may be.... Tip Jar Donor

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    Spot on TJ but who is ultimately responsible that the players execute and play with discipline? Fisher does not get a pass in my book. He started camp a couple days later- had less pads and his adjustment after the Pittsburgh and Houston loss was to have the players come in a half later each morning.
     
    #4 Riverman, Oct 12, 2009
  13. Gut

    Gut Pro Bowler

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    Nice post! And frankly, as you explain, everyone's got a hand in this...coaches, players, playcalling, execution, mistakes, penalties...

    Amazingly, despite all of this, we could have a winning record right now by just cleaning up a couple of mistakes player's have made. That's the good. The bad is that we are making NEW mistakes and repeating old ones. Additionally, as some coaching issues have improved...others have gotten worse! Add in to that our 3 starting CB's were out of this game and we have injury issues to deal with too!

    And BTW, our OL might be the BIGGEST problem with the offense. I rewatched the Jets game and re-watched this game and it's shocking how ineffective we are in just getting a body on the right people. No vet offensive lineman should fire out and not block ANYONE. And you can't run to a side and NOT block the playside ILB vs a 3-4 or the OLB in a 4-3. And we wonder why we can't run? And that's not even getting into who's getting manhandled by defensive players when they are TRYING to block the right guy.

    If I have the time, I may do a more in depth look at each play of the game...

    Gut
     
    #5 Gut, Oct 12, 2009
  16. Finnegan2win

    Finnegan2win hopesfall2win

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    Isn't our Oline the EXACT same guys as last season? What the hell is their problem? We didn't switch Oline coaches ..or did we? Maybe he doesn't exist anymore and I missed that..
     
    #6 Finnegan2win, Oct 12, 2009
  19. titantigerfan

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    I don't understand why they decided to throw passes on our last drive before halftime. I remember there being 2 incompletions right before Bironas kicked the field goal. I thought they should have ran the ball and hopefully take some time off the clock, or ar least make Indy use their timeouts. When I saw we had one minute left in the half after the FG, I knew Peyton would drive the field and score.
     
    #7 titantigerfan, Oct 12, 2009
  22. TitansWinAgain

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    I was really impressed by our D last night, McCourty didn't do as well as Finnegan but as a rookie he was better than Rey Hill in his prime so I wont complain.

    We actually had a good pass rush early in the game (addition by subtraction of Kearse?). KVB gave his all that game and still couldn't get a sack though, how much longer before he gets the same treatment as Kearse and we let a younger guy take his place? Tony Brown played hard as usual, I love how he leveled Wayne on KB's int return.

    The offense just gave the D no support by constantly going 3 and out, and never taking advantage of the Colts mistakes.

    Collins is painful to watch. He folds under pressure, and he seems to be deathly afraid of taking a hit. Love or hate Vince he atleast plays hard, fights to get out of tackles and will take a hit to pick up extra yardage. Collins just braces for the sack if he can't run out of bounds or throw it away.

    Maybe I'm over analyzing but I feel like all CJs east west reverse field antics are him trying to hard because he feels like he has to carry the offense.
     
    #8 TitansWinAgain, Oct 12, 2009
  25. Jwill1919

    Jwill1919 Coach

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    In no way am I defending KFC, but as an offense, it's kinda hard to get into a rhythm when your defense allows multiple 10-15 play 8 minute drives. Our Defense has GOT to GET OFF THE FIELD. I didn't matter if we had the Colts in a 3rd and long, they still converted and easily I might add. Offensively, CJ is killing us with his zero or negative yardage. He needs to hit the hole, take the 3-5 yds and come back the next play. Yes he is a big play RB, but he is giving the Defense more big plays by allowing them to put us in long yardage situations. Not to mention that he may be horrible in pass pro, for as many times as he stays in to protect, I rarely ever see him actually pick up a defender. KFC was on target on the majority of his passes. Drops happen.
     
    #9 Jwill1919, Oct 12, 2009
  28. TitansWinAgain

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    The thing is the D stopped the Colts early in the game but each time they stopped the Colts on 3rd down they were back on the field ~6 plays later. Eventually the D tired out and the pass rush slowed so it was all down hill from there.

    A few time consuming drives early would have went a long to keeping our D rested enough to stop Manning.
     
    #10 TitansWinAgain, Oct 12, 2009
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