Concerns Going Forward

CJ broke the all time yards from scrimmage record.....the last guy to do that had a hall of fame qb, wr, and open-ended offensive scheme.

Cj had a qb that wasn't allowed over 20 attempts and a scheme that my nine year old niece could decipher....in seconds.

Like I have said before.....if the Titans are serious about the run game, keep CJ. If not, trade him. No sense wasting that talent because the head coach can't admit a mistake in personnel for center.

The best running backs ever have had bad seasons.....due to playing on bad teams and bad lines. CJ is special once he gets to the second level...history proves that.....but it's on the line to at least let him get to the line of scrimmage, not having to juke out of the center's way because he wants to get a close up of the turf.

 

Mawae is extremely missed.....even if he is a douche.

 

Logan Mankins held out almost the entire season for the Patriots. James Jones was asking for a trade from the Packers. I'm sure there are others...

 

Very good post. However, I have to disagree with blaming our offensive woes on Palmer. While his playcalling is not spectacular it is not that bad either. Fact is our running game does not work this season. The reasons for that are clear: O-line, while outstanding at pass blocking cannot block anybody during running plays. CJ clearly underperforms this season. The rest on offense is not that bad. If Cook does not fumble the ball and DWill does not drop every other ball thrown at him we would have won against the Colts.
The two who should have a serious conversation are Munchak and Matthews.
As far as the D is concerned I got to seriously question the erratic playcalling by Gray throughout the season.
Here is what I think we need: WR(s) (either 1st Rd of the draft or FA), C (preferrably a good FA), G(s) (Draft), S(s) (Draft and FA).

 

How can you not blame Palmer? Even excusing his 2 bone-headed calls in a game that clearly lost it for us...

Let's see here:

He took arguably the best runningback and offensive line, and implemented a scheme that turned them to the worst in the league. He never adjusted to the players- something a coach must know how to do.

Our team shows the playclock management of a Les Miles coached team. Do they not understand what sidelines do?

Predictable gameplan. Run on first and 2nd. For nothing. Throw short of the sticks on 3rd. Sorry... any 8th grade kid in the united states could run a better offensive play-set.

He had done absolutely nothing before he was awarded this job- it shouldn't be surprising that he's doing terrible now. He didn't have a resume worthy of an OC job. Cut the fat. Norm Chow wasn't even this bad.

 

Munchak, Palmer, Johnson, Amano, and now Hasselbeck are ALL responsible for our awful play. The players are doing a terrible job of executing, and the coaches are doing an even worse job of adjusting.

I initially was a Palmer supporter because why not, but I can't lie to myself much longer, the guy is not NFL material. Everything he knows, most other coordinators knew 6 months ago. Hard to win games when you're always playing catch up, and I don't mean in points. Palmer came in to TN not knowing diddly about this team, and spent the entire offseason learning about our team. He hasn't had the chance to install much of his stuff, but based off the little extras he's added, I don't want to see his stuff next year. He was our 3rd choice at OC for a reason, let's see if we can lure away a serious offensive coordinator and compete next year.

 

I've been saying this for awhile now but we NEED and innovative offensive coordinator, a Sean Peyton type or perhaps someone like Morninwig in Philly. This offensive scheme does not fit a back like CJ, I sound like a broken record but I'm gonna shout it until the cows come home. CJ is like 190 pounds soaking wet, he should not be pounded up the middle every 1st and 2nd down against 8 and 9 man fronts, this is just pure stupidity and the reason why Palmer has to go, the sooner the better. I said it in the off season, if the Titans are unwilling to adapt their offense around CJ, clearly the best player on the team, then he should be traded. What do they do, hire the exactly type of coordinator we don't need :(.

Put CJ in the Philly scheme and tell me he doesn't look light years better. McCoy doesn't have nearly the physical tools of CJ and he's making the NFL look stupid. Again this is all scheme and predictability. We are so predictable a High School coach could figure out how to stop our offense, but not Philly's, you can't tell what they are going to do.

The problem is, which you eluded to earlier is will Munch do anything about it. Sadly I think he won't, the status quo is just fine in Tennessee.

 

Bing-o was his name-o! I definitely agree on this point. I understand that Matthews is a rookie coach here but dude has got to do better work with our OL. It is beyond me as to why our line sucks so bad. You would think that considering the 2 are HOF OL that that would be our strongest unit.

Palmer has made boneheaded calls and so has Gray but our OL is by far our weakest unit.

 

Munchak was sort of handcuffed when it came to choosing coordinators because Fisher waited so long to decide to leave. Munchak had to take what he could. Now, we're stuck with the OC for the moment because we don't want Locker to have to learn a new system in his 2nd year (see Alex Smith's career to see how this will effect a young QB). So I blame Fisher for a lot of this.