after 10 minutes, Titans Sell out Entire Season

I said the same thing about Kerry Collins. It lasted 10 minutes and we sold out.

 

The point is, that we had several games that weren't exciting. This isn't about winning and losing. If it's about winning and losing, then we certainly were less exciting than a bunch of other teams last season.

Of course you can list our exciting plays and say that they didn't have those same plays. But they had their own share of great moments and exciting games. If you watched their home opener against the falcons, you should know what I'm talking about. That team was fired up and exciting to watch.

If you want to compare difference making plays, such as Vince's 39 yard TD run... Brees had a completion of over 50 yards in 9 of 16 games. He only had three games without a passing touchdown, and had four games with 3 or more TDs. Can Vince match that? Of course not. Brees had a 35 yard TD pass in the fourth quarter of week 2 to give the Saints the lead. He had a 48 yard TD pass to Horn in the fourth quarter of the Philly game to tie it up. He had a 45 yard TD pass in the Tampa Bay game with only 30 seconds left. He had a 42 yard TD pass against Dallas with less than 4 minutes to play. Those are only huge plays in the last quarter of the game, and games that they won, I didn't even look at the losses. I didn't include the Atlanta game, where Brees had 2 TDs over 45 yards, because they weren't in the fourth quarter. Oh, and keep in mind that Brees only threw four passes in the final game, because they were already headed to the playoffs.

You're right, everyone does love a cinderella story, but it wasn't us last season, it was the Saints. We didn't make the playoffs, so we weren't a cinderella team. What is special about coming "within one game" of the playoffs? Do you know how many teams fit in that category? We didn't make the cut. We had some excitement down the stretch, and some great games, but we weren't the most exciting team. We pulled out some victories that we probably shouldn't have, and won several games in extremely unlikely ways. We won the philly game and the indy game despite having far less total yards, in the Houston game they had twice as much offensive production as we did, and in the Jags game we lost in production almost 4 to 1!

The Saints had plenty of exciting games, and were much more exciting to watch. They had four different receivers with 100 yard games! They had two candidates for offensive rookie of the year! More importantly, they started with lower expectations, and actually followed through and made the playoffs! They even made it to the NFC championship. They did what we failed to do.

If you want to say that Vince is the most exciting player to watch, that's fine, I won't argue that as much. But the Titans weren't the most exciting team in the NFL to watch last season. I understand your excitement, heck, I already admitted that they were the most exciting to me, but we're not objective.

 

Saints/Falcons is a reasonably big rivalry, bigger than several of our division rivalries. The NFC South is always a serious conference, and their division matchups are great. And clearly it was a more nationally recognized game, since it was MNF, we were not on most TVs in the nation that sunday afternoon...

Find someone, before the season started, that predicted a Saints playoff run. (Not the Times-Picayune). ESPN's power rankings (which I'm not saying are correct, but they're a pretty good barometer of national publication's gauge of the teams) had them ranked 29th on opening week. We were four or five spots higher. I'm amazed that you point to the fact that no one was picking us to do anything after our first five losses... that was roughly 1/3 of the way through the season, and we had done absolutely nothing exciting... how can you just throw out 1/3 of the season and still objectively say they were the most exciting? The Saints were a surprise from the beginning, and had an exciting season all 17 weeks. They did have a last second game, against Philly, where Philly missed a last second field goal.

Look, I'm not trying to get you to say that you think the Saints were the more exciting team. I'm just trying to get you to acknowledge that, from the objective, outsider viewpoint, the Titans can't have been the most exciting team. They might have had the most last minute wins, but that can't overcome some of the painful games that we had to sit through (Chargers, Dallas, 1st Jags).

 

Ok, if you'd rather watch Kerry Collins fail to beat the Jets than the Saints pulling out a surprise win over the browns, or the Jags absolutely pounding the Titans by 30 points in Alltell, rather than watch Brees throw 3 Tds, two of which were more than 40 yards, that's fine, I guess I can't argue with that.

 

So much fun, it cost us the playoffs...