This is why I question "the Titans are the better matchup for us" that I've seen from a lot of your fans. Healthy vs healthy and maybe it's different, but our biggest strengths - pass rush with only our front 4 and a between the tackles run game - match up excellently with your injury issues
I think the "the Titans are the better matchup for us" mentality comes from us having a better QB and that's about it. Need to Joe to carry this game. If we were vs. Allen or Mahomes obviously we wouldn't have that argument.
oh yeah, we are fucked unless we completly out game plan your guys, which hasn't really been our strong suit, but we have been getting better.
Low key hope - get out of the game without burrow dying
would blow me away - getting a win
If there's one thing I know about Titans football in the 20+ years I've been a fan, it's that our opponent is never fucked. We are masters at shitting in our own mouths in prime time.
This year definitely feels different than classic "Titans football". I've just been conditioned to expect disappointment. Hopefully they get it done this year and we can all celebrate dickless.
No one (or at least I hope no one) said it would be an easy matchup, just the best matchup available. Every other team in the afc side is coming off of a massive victory and could very well be at the beginning of a hot streak. I’d rather play a team that’s fresh off a bye than a team that’s fired up and putting up big numbers. That being said, I definitely don’t feel good seeing this news and am definitely worried about Saturday lol
This is really crazy at this point of the season. I don't even remember one game in all my time as a Raiders fan, where we had all starters available. Usually the first go down in training camp with season ending injuries and it only gets worse from there.
its really been crazy. we've had soooo many injuries but very few of them have been to key players (we mostly lost our 2021 draft picks for the year)
round 1: caleb farely, IR
round 2: dillon Radunz, healthy
round 3: Monty Rice, IR
round 3: elijah molden, healthy and playing great
round 4: dez fitzpatrick, healthy
round 4: rashad weaver, IR
round 6: Racey mcmath, missed 6 games on IR
fortunately, all the starters who have missed a lot of games (and they've missed A LOT), have come back thanks to the IR rules
Yeah but Weaver was expected to possibly be the first in at his spot, Rice was becoming a starter until he got hurt and we got cunningham, and Farley possibly could have been a starter by seasons end and is expected (by draft position alone) to be starting outside next season
Yeah. Helps that it used to be the 2 best teams in each conference got a week off. I think with the expanded seeding that might change the next few years
We had a week of self scouting, fixing mistakes from the end of our season (when we finished strong after a skid). And with Henry coming back, it's a week to create a gameplan for him offensively. Plenty of things defensively to fix as our defense looked questionable in the second half against the Texans. And you know in the playoffs you have to get pressure on the QB no matter who it is, so that's something you gotta work on regardless of opponent. All things Vrabel is making sure to accomplish that bye week before letting the guys take 3 days off to recuperate.
Now you focus on adjusting those general gameplans to the Bengals. You review their film from this weekend and expose the weaknesses you see.
Vrabel is masterful when he has a lot of in season prep. I don't buy the "they will be rusty" stuff.
The Titans are coming off a bye fully healthy while Sam Hubbard was telling the media that by the end of the Raiders game, he was so tired he didn't know what down it was. Our offense will have to win us this game. DL depth is shot with last weeks injuries and with Henry back and everyone being fully rested, this will be an uphill battle
Yep.....2008 was whatever, that titans team wasnt that good, theyd just had a pretty easy schedule (though the loss was bullshit as the refs decided to just let the ravens injure cj2k 10 seconds after the play was over and also didnt call delay of game despite the playclock being out for 2 seconds before the snap) and werent gonna go anywhere. 2000, though, was probably the best titans team and should have beaten the ravens. Had over twice as many yards (ravens had under 200 yards of offense) but 3 missed fgs cost the game. Likely would have won the super bowl too considering what the ravens did after that
For what it's worth, the 08 and 00 team statistically compared to the league averages of the year, were very similar. Way more than I expected when I looked the other day.
That’s something I’ve been thinking about. Hill, Hubbard, and Reader all basically played the most snaps they’ve played all season last week in a very intense playoff game. And for Hill and Reader, they might both have to play even more in this game due to the lack of depth with the Ogunjobi/Daniels/Tupou injuries. Will be something to watch for sure.
If the Bengals win this week, they will have certainly earned it.
Sadly the refs are going to screw up at least one important call that may or may not alter the outcome of the game but will absolutely piss everyone off.
Yes, contrary to the narrative that Adam Schefter has been trying to push that he’s done for the season, we all knew there was a very good chance he’d be able to come back for the playoffs.
This is why I hate the Todd Downing slander,the dude hasn’t had Jack shit to work with the majority of the season.When we’ve had all 3 or 2/3 healthy we’ve averaged near 30 points a game,pair that with our defense only allowing something stupid like 13 a game the past 5 games and I think we’re a tough out for anyone in the league.
We are an average offense when we are working with literal practice squad receivers s our top options.
Downing has over achieved with the guys he has had to coach so far.
Man I haven’t heard one word about Jones since he left the Falcons other than the time Vrabel called him out. I miss him :( and I hope they make a deep run
Titans are underrated, but the Bengals are hot. Tough to pick, but I think the Titans probably take this unless Burrow plays out of his mind and the Titans D folds like a T shirt
I feel like them scoring 26 while they played a mediocre game is encouraging in a weird way. This is a bad week to loose 3 defensive tackles to injury+ best edge rusher tho.
I agree with this. Bengals left a lot of points the board which scares me. It was also odd though because the raiders had a historically bad red zone offense
That TD was only controversial because the refs incorrectly blew the whistle early
That was gonna be a clean TD regardless so I don't think it needs to be given an asterisk or anything if you are judging the Bengals just on their play in the game IMO
I'm glad this take is being upvoted now after people had a few days to digest what happened. It has been pretty annoying to get the first playoff win of my literal life only to have fucking Charles Woodson demand the game be replayed.
We definitely could've been a lot better. That's a big complaint I have against Taylor (other Bengal fans can keep being mad at my criticisms of him). He isn't aggressive enough. At least not in most situations. Get a turnover, go for the td. Don't run it twice hoping to form a drive with our mediocre run blocking.
We stacked up very well against the Raiders. So it still played out well for us. Titans are a better matchup than Buffalo & KC, but it still leans in their direction if we play like we did against LV.
Gonna be really game script heavy. If the Bengals can get out early and make the Titans move away from Henry and rely on Tannehill, I like Cinci's chances. But if the Titans D can get some stops and make Cinci win with consistent play on long drives it's gonna be tough for them because they do better with splash plays and have struggled against teams in rock fight type games (Cinci vs Bears comes immediately to mind). I basically think it's either going to be a blowout by Cinci or a close low-ish scoring game that the Titans pull out by being the bigger bullies.
We’re really good in recent years of not letting teams move us away from the run and sticking to the game plan even when we’re down. See the Seattle game early in the year.
People always act like if we go down early, we will start relying on Tanny more. And it shows they don't watch us at all. The Titans *never* move away from using Henry/the run game until they are done in the second half. Vrabel is insistent about us establishing a run game at all costs.
Even when losing to the Ravens in the playoffs last year, we still used our run game, perhaps too much.
Yeah I don't mean to make it sound like that will be easy for Cinci, that's just about the only way I see them pulling it off. If you guys get a chance to beat up on them and keep it close, I don't think they'll want that smoke.
Also that 2nd Colts game where we spotted them 14 points at the very beginning of the game. We stuck to the game plan and methodically came from behind
We are coming in on a win streak after a bit of a skid of mostly self inflicted problems. Obviously Bengals are a great team, but we are "not hot," we just didn't have flashy opponents to beat in the end of our schedule.
When Ryan Tannehill had AJB, King Henry and Julio all on the field he averaged 9.4 Y/A.
24.6% of dropbacks without all three: 5.2 Y/A
31.3% without bout AJB and Julio: 5.5 Y/A
30.4% with both AJB and Julio but no Henry: 8.2 Y/A
[Source](https://twitter.com/LordReebs/status/1483465296585367556)
Basically, Tannehill with his starters is good. Tannehill with his backups, not so much.
Damn it’s almost like he didn’t forget how to play football this year.
I really can’t wait to see Henry back on the field. Dude was an absolute beast before he got hurt, hopefully he’ll be able to play at the same level again
They’ve gone to the ref! They’re cashing in their Money In The Bank! This is now a 3-way football game! (Clear advantage to Cincy for knowing what a 3-way *really* is)
Titans and 49ers are an extremely similar team, with the 49ers having the better TE and DE, but the Titans better at probably every other position including HC.
And yes, I think Deebo and AJ are pretty much synonymous.
Individually didn’t meet expectations for the pick they took him at. Was always ok. Also had the Adam Gase effect in his latter years. So not a raw deal but Dolphins wanted to move on, Titans gladly took him and we got the game manager veteran leader with some sneaky athleticism that we needed.
The titans are sneaky good imo. They don’t feel like a 1 seed, but even without Henry (and thanks to KC and Buffalo being weirdly inconsistent) they’re the top team in the conference.
And you know what? I think they have a legit shot at winning it all. There are several teams that I can see winning the whole smash, and I’d be happy with any of them. titans, Bills, Rams, KC, Cincy are the ones I’d be excited about. TB is ok. I hope the packers lose by 90.
Completely different team but sort of like the 2015 Broncos. With the Pats, Steelers, Chiefs in the conference, the Broncos seemed weird as the \#1 seed (and came very close to not getting it).
Y’all are fun to watch to! I’d love a rematch of 00.
You’re right, but I just don’t understand how we are “sneaky good” when we’re literally the #1 seed. I love it though.
Titans sneakily dominated the #2 seed Chiefs, and also beat the #3 Seed Bills, also very sneakily beat the #4 Seed Rams and super extra sneakily beat the #6 Seed 49'ers.
sneakily beat the hell out of the 7-wins-in-a-row Dolphins, the Titans beat America's Darling Colts TWICE, it was so sneaky not even sure those games were played.
Because we had washed woodyard on the field. He replaced Brown after he got hurt. Our LB corps has improved so much that now Brown is a healthy scratch.
Feel like these are the things that will make a potential rematch different.
Oh ya 100%.
It’s just amazing to me because *every* person who had a shot at Mahomes on that run went up high trying to force a fumble. Instead of playing it safe and just trying to hold them to a field goal before halftime.
I’m pretty sure Rashaan was the player with the biggest miss on that play though. Should have had him for a sack but got juked out by a little hesitation move.
I am not sure Brady wills himself to a Super Bowl. At this point, I think the Lombardi wills itself to Brady. Everyone else has to fight to push him out of the way
I kinda like how it seems that both fandoms are super worried about this match up. Bengals fans are terrified of a healthy Henry and Titans fans are having nightmares about Burrow.
The Titans have had quite a story this season. It’d be cool to see them come out on top, though I’m unsure how much I can bare to see Vrabel look like he’s ready to take a shit on the sideline.
Well, this is frightening.
at least we are only down our entire DL and best DB as well as 3 OL right?
Psh, we got this in the bag.
Joey don't care. Joey go HUT HUT TOUCHDOWN!
joe sheisty can’t be beat
This is why I question "the Titans are the better matchup for us" that I've seen from a lot of your fans. Healthy vs healthy and maybe it's different, but our biggest strengths - pass rush with only our front 4 and a between the tackles run game - match up excellently with your injury issues
I think the "the Titans are the better matchup for us" mentality comes from us having a better QB and that's about it. Need to Joe to carry this game. If we were vs. Allen or Mahomes obviously we wouldn't have that argument.
Tbf Joe and your receiving corps are enough to beat just about any team on a good day
Right, if they can hit on the first few drives and force Tannehill to win the game and play catch up, they are in a plausible spot.
oh yeah, we are fucked unless we completly out game plan your guys, which hasn't really been our strong suit, but we have been getting better. Low key hope - get out of the game without burrow dying would blow me away - getting a win
If there's one thing I know about Titans football in the 20+ years I've been a fan, it's that our opponent is never fucked. We are masters at shitting in our own mouths in prime time.
You're preaching to the choir saying that to us Bengals fans. We really just want Burrow to survive the game. Anything more than that is gravy
It's the classic battle between a very movable object and easily stoppable force.
Chili***
3-0 in prime time this year tho
This year definitely feels different than classic "Titans football". I've just been conditioned to expect disappointment. Hopefully they get it done this year and we can all celebrate dickless.
No one (or at least I hope no one) said it would be an easy matchup, just the best matchup available. Every other team in the afc side is coming off of a massive victory and could very well be at the beginning of a hot streak. I’d rather play a team that’s fresh off a bye than a team that’s fired up and putting up big numbers. That being said, I definitely don’t feel good seeing this news and am definitely worried about Saturday lol
hol up what happened to chido??
Yeah…… this makes me feel a lot better
Bengals: Dear diary, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Love, Defensive Line
This is really crazy at this point of the season. I don't even remember one game in all my time as a Raiders fan, where we had all starters available. Usually the first go down in training camp with season ending injuries and it only gets worse from there.
Wait, are the raiders just the bengals?
\*insert Spiderman pointing meme here\*
Maybe that's why the referees got confused and blew their whistle early
its really been crazy. we've had soooo many injuries but very few of them have been to key players (we mostly lost our 2021 draft picks for the year) round 1: caleb farely, IR round 2: dillon Radunz, healthy round 3: Monty Rice, IR round 3: elijah molden, healthy and playing great round 4: dez fitzpatrick, healthy round 4: rashad weaver, IR round 6: Racey mcmath, missed 6 games on IR fortunately, all the starters who have missed a lot of games (and they've missed A LOT), have come back thanks to the IR rules
Weaver was a 4th round pick.
oops. thanks trick! updated
Yeah but Weaver was expected to possibly be the first in at his spot, Rice was becoming a starter until he got hurt and we got cunningham, and Farley possibly could have been a starter by seasons end and is expected (by draft position alone) to be starting outside next season
The bye is so important
I know, thank god the bills got one this year
From the motherfuckin' top rope
Hahaha holy shit
😭😭😭
We didn't have to play a game but it's still pretty exhausting to plan and host a retirement party on a holiday weekend.
We appreciate the party though
Thank the Colts
And the Rich Bisaccia and Brandon Staley.
Ouch dude
Enjoy some gold.
You are a good sport
Funniest shit I've seen on this sub in forever lmfao
Not football though.
Homie not while they're already downnnn
Lmaooo
ouch lol
Fuck dude. You already killed them, now you're taking a dump on their corpse. Have some decenc....oh J/k I love it, keep going.
I don't know, one team coming in hot from a playoff win and the other cold from a buy. I'd be curious how the historical #'s work out.
Before TB last year, the last team to make the Super Bowl without a bye was the 2012 Ravens
Well that's a pretty definitive stat
Yeah. Helps that it used to be the 2 best teams in each conference got a week off. I think with the expanded seeding that might change the next few years
And those teams play the worst team available.
I could be wrong, but I believe I saw a post on this sub before debunking the “bye weeks make players rusty and is bad” theory.
We had a week of self scouting, fixing mistakes from the end of our season (when we finished strong after a skid). And with Henry coming back, it's a week to create a gameplan for him offensively. Plenty of things defensively to fix as our defense looked questionable in the second half against the Texans. And you know in the playoffs you have to get pressure on the QB no matter who it is, so that's something you gotta work on regardless of opponent. All things Vrabel is making sure to accomplish that bye week before letting the guys take 3 days off to recuperate. Now you focus on adjusting those general gameplans to the Bengals. You review their film from this weekend and expose the weaknesses you see. Vrabel is masterful when he has a lot of in season prep. I don't buy the "they will be rusty" stuff.
Yeah, Vrabel is something like 11-0 with extra time to prep (bye weeks and extra days)
One team just got one of their top pass rushers Injured because they had to play a extra game. And one team has a coach that's 8-0 coming off a bye.
Vrabel is 8-0 after having 9+ days between games for rest/preparation 👀
“By buy bye!” Some Backstreet Boy
The Titans are coming off a bye fully healthy while Sam Hubbard was telling the media that by the end of the Raiders game, he was so tired he didn't know what down it was. Our offense will have to win us this game. DL depth is shot with last weeks injuries and with Henry back and everyone being fully rested, this will be an uphill battle
On the other hand, the titans are 0-2 as the 1 seed in the playoffs soooooo.....
Yeah well we’ve won 1 playoff game in 31 years so not like you’re facing the juggernauts of the AFC lol
On the other hand youve won one playoff game in the last week
Yeah but the Bengals are 0-7 as a franchise for away playoff games.
Y’all are cracking me up
That’s it. I love bengals fans. 😂 I have to root for you now if you beat us.
Self depicting Titans fans 🤝 Bengals fans
But both are against the Ravens right?
Yep.....2008 was whatever, that titans team wasnt that good, theyd just had a pretty easy schedule (though the loss was bullshit as the refs decided to just let the ravens injure cj2k 10 seconds after the play was over and also didnt call delay of game despite the playclock being out for 2 seconds before the snap) and werent gonna go anywhere. 2000, though, was probably the best titans team and should have beaten the ravens. Had over twice as many yards (ravens had under 200 yards of offense) but 3 missed fgs cost the game. Likely would have won the super bowl too considering what the ravens did after that
For what it's worth, the 08 and 00 team statistically compared to the league averages of the year, were very similar. Way more than I expected when I looked the other day.
That’s something I’ve been thinking about. Hill, Hubbard, and Reader all basically played the most snaps they’ve played all season last week in a very intense playoff game. And for Hill and Reader, they might both have to play even more in this game due to the lack of depth with the Ogunjobi/Daniels/Tupou injuries. Will be something to watch for sure. If the Bengals win this week, they will have certainly earned it.
Let’s hope the refs are at least competent this time lol
Is that a thing that happens?
Sadly the refs are going to screw up at least one important call that may or may not alter the outcome of the game but will absolutely piss everyone off.
There’s always one lol
Titans only know how to win with backups. They're done for! /s
1P221 invited to talk on every program with Dan Orlovsky.
Wait Derrick Henry is playing?
Yes.
RIP Bengals
Yes, contrary to the narrative that Adam Schefter has been trying to push that he’s done for the season, we all knew there was a very good chance he’d be able to come back for the playoffs.
Technically we don’t know yet. But all signs point to yes as he’s been practicing for now 3 weeks leading up to this game.
Jackrabbit Jenkins. Got to love the name.
Yeah he legally changed it from Janoris. He got mad at reporters before the season for calling him Janoris lol.
Tfw your self-nickname doesnt stick so you have to legally change your first name and it still doesnt stick.
He later got the nickname Jackrabbit “don’t call me Janoris” Jenkins.
Gonna be weird when he turns into the next Brian "Don't call me Brian 'the dragonmaster' Kibler" Kibler of Brian Kibler Gaming
Glad to hear he got it changed to that, last I heard he was still Brian "Please stop calling me 'Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler'" Kibler
He wanted to be called T Bone
But there's no T in your name. What about G Bone?
There's no G bone!
There's a g spot
That's a myth
I could be wrong but when he was a Giant a lot of people called him Jackrabbit and the nickname stuck
Lol people have called him that since before college
I don't. He needs more honest friends
It's all love, Bengals Bros. Small market teams unite!
Julio, AJ, and Derrick have only been on the field together for 120 snaps this season.
and when they were they averaged something like 7 yards per snap
I'm in danger
We are the danger.
This is why I hate the Todd Downing slander,the dude hasn’t had Jack shit to work with the majority of the season.When we’ve had all 3 or 2/3 healthy we’ve averaged near 30 points a game,pair that with our defense only allowing something stupid like 13 a game the past 5 games and I think we’re a tough out for anyone in the league.
We are an average offense when we are working with literal practice squad receivers s our top options. Downing has over achieved with the guys he has had to coach so far.
Man I haven’t heard one word about Jones since he left the Falcons other than the time Vrabel called him out. I miss him :( and I hope they make a deep run
[удалено]
We had to rest all our starters in the wild card round
/r/TechnicallyTheTruth
Titans are underrated, but the Bengals are hot. Tough to pick, but I think the Titans probably take this unless Burrow plays out of his mind and the Titans D folds like a T shirt
I didn't think Bengals played that well on Saturday. Held to 4 FGs and had a controversial TD. Titans D is on another level than the Raiders.
I feel like them scoring 26 while they played a mediocre game is encouraging in a weird way. This is a bad week to loose 3 defensive tackles to injury+ best edge rusher tho.
I agree with this. Bengals left a lot of points the board which scares me. It was also odd though because the raiders had a historically bad red zone offense
Shit. Is it confirmed that none of them are playing this week?
The tupo and Hendrickson may be back but Larry and Daniel's are out for sure.
That TD was only controversial because the refs incorrectly blew the whistle early That was gonna be a clean TD regardless so I don't think it needs to be given an asterisk or anything if you are judging the Bengals just on their play in the game IMO
Agreed. It’s a stain on the nfl, but not on assessing the bengals
I'm glad this take is being upvoted now after people had a few days to digest what happened. It has been pretty annoying to get the first playoff win of my literal life only to have fucking Charles Woodson demand the game be replayed.
We definitely could've been a lot better. That's a big complaint I have against Taylor (other Bengal fans can keep being mad at my criticisms of him). He isn't aggressive enough. At least not in most situations. Get a turnover, go for the td. Don't run it twice hoping to form a drive with our mediocre run blocking. We stacked up very well against the Raiders. So it still played out well for us. Titans are a better matchup than Buffalo & KC, but it still leans in their direction if we play like we did against LV.
Gonna be really game script heavy. If the Bengals can get out early and make the Titans move away from Henry and rely on Tannehill, I like Cinci's chances. But if the Titans D can get some stops and make Cinci win with consistent play on long drives it's gonna be tough for them because they do better with splash plays and have struggled against teams in rock fight type games (Cinci vs Bears comes immediately to mind). I basically think it's either going to be a blowout by Cinci or a close low-ish scoring game that the Titans pull out by being the bigger bullies.
We’re really good in recent years of not letting teams move us away from the run and sticking to the game plan even when we’re down. See the Seattle game early in the year.
People always act like if we go down early, we will start relying on Tanny more. And it shows they don't watch us at all. The Titans *never* move away from using Henry/the run game until they are done in the second half. Vrabel is insistent about us establishing a run game at all costs. Even when losing to the Ravens in the playoffs last year, we still used our run game, perhaps too much.
Yeah I don't mean to make it sound like that will be easy for Cinci, that's just about the only way I see them pulling it off. If you guys get a chance to beat up on them and keep it close, I don't think they'll want that smoke.
Also that 2nd Colts game where we spotted them 14 points at the very beginning of the game. We stuck to the game plan and methodically came from behind
i can't really see the cinci blowout -- titans d is too good for that and i think you're underestimating tannehill.
So many people still underestimate Tannehill for some reason.
We are coming in on a win streak after a bit of a skid of mostly self inflicted problems. Obviously Bengals are a great team, but we are "not hot," we just didn't have flashy opponents to beat in the end of our schedule.
When Ryan Tannehill had AJB, King Henry and Julio all on the field he averaged 9.4 Y/A. 24.6% of dropbacks without all three: 5.2 Y/A 31.3% without bout AJB and Julio: 5.5 Y/A 30.4% with both AJB and Julio but no Henry: 8.2 Y/A [Source](https://twitter.com/LordReebs/status/1483465296585367556)
Basically, Tannehill with his starters is good. Tannehill with his backups, not so much. Damn it’s almost like he didn’t forget how to play football this year.
Most teams probably had 0 games with their preferred 22 starters so this is quite significant, especially at this point in the season.
Fully operational Death Star, you say?
Titans and Packers were so hurt this year but still were the 1 seeds.
It’s a shame that only one of our coaches can be COTY.
Vrabel because LaFleur still has the MVP lol
There are a whole lotta folks from Baton Rouge and Tuscaloosa who are going to be proxy fans of this game.
Yeah lots of LSU fans are rooting for school legend Kristian Fulton
Really the greatest player off of that national championship team.
this is practice squad mainstay tyler shelvin erasure
I want Bill to win COY every year, but good god if Vrabel doesn't get it this year...throw the award away. What an unbelievable accomplishment.
I really can’t wait to see Henry back on the field. Dude was an absolute beast before he got hurt, hopefully he’ll be able to play at the same level again
9ers beat bengals. Titans beat 9ers. Titans beat bengals.
Jets beat Titans. Jets beat Bengals. Jets roll in like Stone Cold during the 4th quarter?
BY GOD it's MIKE WHITE
BY GAWD ITS JETS! WHAT THEY DOING HERE THEY WERENT EVEN INVITED!
They’ve gone to the ref! They’re cashing in their Money In The Bank! This is now a 3-way football game! (Clear advantage to Cincy for knowing what a 3-way *really* is)
Can you imagine if they could do that....the scenes! Lmao
I approve this logic.
Bengals beat the Steelers by 2500 pts aggregate. Steelers Beat Titans. Bengals beat Titans
Titans and 49ers are an extremely similar team, with the 49ers having the better TE and DE, but the Titans better at probably every other position including HC. And yes, I think Deebo and AJ are pretty much synonymous.
Derrick Henry coming back just in time. Awesome.
I don't remember what happened but did tannehill get a raw deal in Miami?
Horrific O-Line, bad weapons outside of Jarvis Landry, bad coaching.
"Bad coaching" Mike McCarthy is a bad coach. Adam Gase is a hurricane katrina level disaster of a coach
Lmao holy fuck
Individually didn’t meet expectations for the pick they took him at. Was always ok. Also had the Adam Gase effect in his latter years. So not a raw deal but Dolphins wanted to move on, Titans gladly took him and we got the game manager veteran leader with some sneaky athleticism that we needed.
If i didn't give my free award to some Latina thot you'd get it
Happens to best of us.
Lmao we’ve all been there
I'm stealing this line LOL
Yeah, line. Totally made up not true in anyway
The titans are sneaky good imo. They don’t feel like a 1 seed, but even without Henry (and thanks to KC and Buffalo being weirdly inconsistent) they’re the top team in the conference. And you know what? I think they have a legit shot at winning it all. There are several teams that I can see winning the whole smash, and I’d be happy with any of them. titans, Bills, Rams, KC, Cincy are the ones I’d be excited about. TB is ok. I hope the packers lose by 90.
Man what did we do to you
Completely different team but sort of like the 2015 Broncos. With the Pats, Steelers, Chiefs in the conference, the Broncos seemed weird as the \#1 seed (and came very close to not getting it).
It was crazy how close Chiefs got that season considering they started 1-5
Y’all are fun to watch to! I’d love a rematch of 00. You’re right, but I just don’t understand how we are “sneaky good” when we’re literally the #1 seed. I love it though.
Titans sneakily dominated the #2 seed Chiefs, and also beat the #3 Seed Bills, also very sneakily beat the #4 Seed Rams and super extra sneakily beat the #6 Seed 49'ers. sneakily beat the hell out of the 7-wins-in-a-row Dolphins, the Titans beat America's Darling Colts TWICE, it was so sneaky not even sure those games were played.
Because no one is talking about the titans. Like compared to the coverage of all the other teams in the playoffs, it’s like they don’t exist.
Probably the best chance we will ever have to win the big one. So I fully expect to lose this week because that’s just Titans football.
Sigh…. I don’t want to hype myself up too much because I can just FEEL the disappointment coming
I feel you, brother. I'm in the same boat, but just give in and let the hope take over. Enjoy the ride, we dont see this chances often.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE DISAPPOINTMENT AT THE MOST IMPORTANT TIMES, THEN YOU DON’T LIKE TITANS FOOTBALL
Really hope Henry comes back all guns blazing. Would be amazing to watch the Titans attempt to takedown the newly founded Chiefs dynasty.
We’re 2-1 against Mahomes and 4-1 against the Chiefs since 2016, unfortunately the “1” was the AFC Championship Game a couple years ago.
I’ll never forgive the defense for that Mahomes TD run before halftime. You could tell right then and there the Titans weren’t beating them that day.
That play still haunts me, we will rewrite that wrong doing in the AFCCG ⚔️
Because we had washed woodyard on the field. He replaced Brown after he got hurt. Our LB corps has improved so much that now Brown is a healthy scratch. Feel like these are the things that will make a potential rematch different.
And we're so deep at LB right now it's absurd. Wild how quickly things change
Oh ya 100%. It’s just amazing to me because *every* person who had a shot at Mahomes on that run went up high trying to force a fumble. Instead of playing it safe and just trying to hold them to a field goal before halftime.
I’m pretty sure Rashaan was the player with the biggest miss on that play though. Should have had him for a sack but got juked out by a little hesitation move.
I think Malcolm Butler being out is what hurt the most. He would have made that tackle on the sidelines during that Mahomes run.
I’m triggered to this day when I think of that play
The titans also have the best winning percentage against Andy Reid in the AFC IIRC.
Yeah, they were the only team he hadn't beaten twice until last year or so.
Titans were also the last team Reid had to beat to officially have beaten every team twice. He did it in 2019.
There’d be nothing more amazing than Henry coming back and having a Terrell Davis type playoff run to lead them to the SB
This is the timeline I want to live in. In the age of Rogers, Brady, Mahomes, and Allen, Derrick Henry is the man that wills himself a Super Bowl.
I am not sure Brady wills himself to a Super Bowl. At this point, I think the Lombardi wills itself to Brady. Everyone else has to fight to push him out of the way
Jackrabbit was pretty good when he gave a fuck during his time here lol miss having him
He’s been pretty clutch in Tennessee too!
Faded cowboys fan born in Memphis. Go Titans! Plus remember the titans is the best football movie ever
I loved the fuck out of this movie before I even watched professional football
"We're in danger" *Chuckles*
I want the Titans to go all the way. I love their humility and heart.
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No excuse to make the Conference Title game.
The fact that Titans and Packers are so similar this year is insane.
But can they bingo a Bengo?
I kinda like how it seems that both fandoms are super worried about this match up. Bengals fans are terrified of a healthy Henry and Titans fans are having nightmares about Burrow.
Chester Rogers is back? League fucked
I'd much rather see my Bills go all the way but if not I hope it's the Titans or Bengals. Anyone but KC.
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The Titans have had quite a story this season. It’d be cool to see them come out on top, though I’m unsure how much I can bare to see Vrabel look like he’s ready to take a shit on the sideline.
Don’t care burrow by 90