Interview: Houston Chronicle's John McClain

you know jeff, you really do a great job running this site.

i don't think the "official" titans' board does this.

 

Wow.

Wow.

Nice job TJ.

 

Agreed.

 

Good interviews... although I had to laugh seeing this in the 2006 one...

ouch

 

McClain basically states the obvious and occasionally goes way off the deep end with some ridiculous stuff. At least in this interview he actually tried to answer the questions. He has become so senile on the radio most of the time by the time he finishes rambling he ends up not even coming close to answering the callers question. One guy asked something about the available DEs we could get in the first round and McClain rambled for 10 minutes about Long and Gholston. Most of the time instead of actually giving names on questions like that he will give generalities about how deep the draft is at a particlular position (most of the time his analysis is contrary to most of the draft gurus).

I do appreciate you getting these kind of interviews Jeff. Don't let my feeling about McClain discourage more of these. Good job by you.

 

Nice read, Jeff. I hope McClain was kidding when he said of Heimerdinger, "I think Mike should get an apartment in Austin and go back and forth."

 

What hurts is the truth that we basically have become a factory for Linemen, we develop them and then watch them walk away instead of reaping the rewards of our initial investment. Odom, Starks, LaBoy, Bell and Stewart if we're not careful will all be producing at a higher level with other teams. We need to do a better job of keeping our own guys, instead of having to reload every single draft because we keep our CRAP and let our CREAM walk. Someone please teach these chuckers in the Front Office how to stagger contracts and get creative. For instance offer Odom a fairly large 2 year deal giving him the incentive to get another shot at Free agency, but keeping his motivation level at the highest point. Either he pans out or doesn't, and by then, he'll know if he wants to be in Tennessee for the long haul and the Championship runs. Offer Bell a huge 5 year deal with a big signing Bonus and backload the crap out of it. Just some ideas..