Its hard for folks who didnt watch this team every game last year to understand how historically bad the offensive line was, how that ruined Levis by mid-season, and how Callahan really was a rookie HC to a fairly shocking degree.
The playbook was extremely limited by necessity. The O-Line couldnt block and Levis couldnt audbile out of blitzes. That made it super easy on opposing defenses and wore out the Titans defense who seemed to always be on the field due to short possesions by the offense and a ton of turnovers as well.
Callahan will be better this year. He grew throughout the year, and they made a few key staff changes. Special Teams were gawdawful last year so Cally’s buddy got canned and the Cowboys special teams guru was hired. Titans will be as good on defense as last year, with less talent, simply because the offense will be on the field alot more and turn over the ball alot less. Kicker this year has massive range so that may help.
The big news is the O-line. If we go from worst (by a bunch) in the NFL to a Top Ten O-line, we will have a winning record, imo. Jax and Indy are bad too. Thats four wins if we are powerful up front. Ward is the real deal.
Ward has a very good chance to show up and silence all the haters this rookie season, and I completely agree with what you said about the o-line. I still do not think that the o-line will be the only thing that helps fix the team and land them a winning record, though, but I definitely think that fix could get them into the division race.
Gunner Helm really opened alot of eyes at TE this camp. Sneed and Sweat will be lacking conditioning to go four quarters in Denver after missing all of camp, imo. Not gonna read too much into that if we dont defend well for 4 quarters, and Ward wont have the whole
playbook for the first few games but I am excited for this year and then what comes next year before the new stadium in ‘27. Dont know what you know about it, but its smaller capacity than the current one and there are no “nosebleed” seats. The fans will be much closer, and hopefully louder. Titans had to ton of season tix holders who essentially aged out of cheering loud and long. The Club Section is like a library during games. Hoping those old farts wont pay the PSL and we get alot younger crowd to rock the joint.
I actually did not know about that, so I'm extremely glad you brought that up, because the crowd means everything for the players. I think week 1 will be a big struggle for the team, but that'll change as we go on throughout the season.
I actually made a big bet on Denver. Always been able to be realistic about my team when I am gambling and they should be two touchdown underdogs, imo.
Its hard for folks who didnt watch this team every game last year to understand how historically bad the offensive line was, how that ruined Levis by mid-season, and how Callahan really was a rookie HC to a fairly shocking degree.
The playbook was extremely limited by necessity. The O-Line couldnt block and Levis couldnt audbile out of blitzes. That made it super easy on opposing defenses and wore out the Titans defense who seemed to always be on the field due to short possesions by the offense and a ton of turnovers as well.
Callahan will be better this year. He grew throughout the year, and they made a few key staff changes. Special Teams were gawdawful last year so Cally’s buddy got canned and the Cowboys special teams guru was hired. Titans will be as good on defense as last year, with less talent, simply because the offense will be on the field alot more and turn over the ball alot less. Kicker this year has massive range so that may help.
The big news is the O-line. If we go from worst (by a bunch) in the NFL to a Top Ten O-line, we will have a winning record, imo. Jax and Indy are bad too. Thats four wins if we are powerful up front. Ward is the real deal.
Ward has a very good chance to show up and silence all the haters this rookie season, and I completely agree with what you said about the o-line. I still do not think that the o-line will be the only thing that helps fix the team and land them a winning record, though, but I definitely think that fix could get them into the division race.
Gunner Helm really opened alot of eyes at TE this camp. Sneed and Sweat will be lacking conditioning to go four quarters in Denver after missing all of camp, imo. Not gonna read too much into that if we dont defend well for 4 quarters, and Ward wont have the whole
playbook for the first few games but I am excited for this year and then what comes next year before the new stadium in ‘27. Dont know what you know about it, but its smaller capacity than the current one and there are no “nosebleed” seats. The fans will be much closer, and hopefully louder. Titans had to ton of season tix holders who essentially aged out of cheering loud and long. The Club Section is like a library during games. Hoping those old farts wont pay the PSL and we get alot younger crowd to rock the joint.
I actually did not know about that, so I'm extremely glad you brought that up, because the crowd means everything for the players. I think week 1 will be a big struggle for the team, but that'll change as we go on throughout the season.
I actually made a big bet on Denver. Always been able to be realistic about my team when I am gambling and they should be two touchdown underdogs, imo.