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Biggest reason for that is Cook isn't much of a blocker. He's an absolute physical freak, but he doesn't do much blocking. The Titans actually do a pretty good job of targeting him when he's out there, but when we run the ball we need a better blocker out there - especially with how poor our line has been at run blocking the past couple of seasons.
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We're screwed.
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While I agree with your overall point, giving up 35 points to this Tennessee offense isn't something to be ashamed of. Our offense is really good, it's our defense that sucks beyond belief and is the cause of our 0-5 SEC record. We're at 35 ppg for the season.
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Titans got screwed.
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It depends on who those players are. If we end up with Greinke/Sanchez/Upton, I think that's a pretty good start toward being good again. If we end up with Lohse/Marcum/CF stopgap, then it's another attempt at a top 1-3 draft pick.
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Bama is the best team in the country without a doubt. They are just otherworldly good.
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Am I crazy to say I'm not convinced Lloyd is better than Wright? Obviously the Pats offense is better than the Titans, but I'm just not a big Lloyd fan.
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I've started Shonn Greene every week this season ..... except this week. And he scored 34 points.
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Haha, at this point I'm not convinced the Titans are better than Jacksonville. But yes, I think Florida is better than Tennessee. I do think Tennessee's talent level is better than its record, as the record is being held down by our transition to the 3-4 (and don't underestimate Mississippi State - they're a really solid team). I also still say the Vols should have won the Florida game, but if the two teams played 10 times, Florida probably wins 6-7 of those matchups.
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Matt Millen has a massive love affair with Cordarelle Patterson, which concerns me considering his track record with WRs. He was saying earlier that Patterson is a better weapon than Hunter. Patterson's a terrific athlete, but I don't see how there's any basis to that.
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Not to take anything away from the Titans because they played a good game, but I don't think the Steelers are all that good this year. I agree, but as bad as the Titans have been this year, I'll take any positive I can get.
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Titans kinda sorta looking like a competent NFL team tonight. CJ looks a little better, but Hasselbeck looks awful.
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What are your thoughts on Schwartz? I'm not sure if it was this guy or somebody else who said Schwartz was overrated and not that great a coach, but I was curious on your thoughts.
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If all the other suitors had the financial resources, the need at the position, and the history/tradition/stadium the Cubs have, then yes, all the other GMs are to blame. Unless Cespedes' agent is very bad at his job and didn't give the Cubs the opportunity to counter Oakland's offer, then there's really no reason the Cubs should have been outbid by Oakland. And I was pretty upset before the season even started that we missed on Cespedes, so I'm not just upset because he had a really good year. And a 3.1 WAR wasn't that unexpected at the beginning of the year - I'd have guessed it'd be more heavily weighted by defense, but this was probably on the upper end of what people thought Cespedes could do in year one.
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Time to start thinking about how nice it'll be to see Jarvis Jones in Titan blue next season, because that's the way Tennessee's season is headed. Or we could go with Justin Hunter and just have a ridiculous WR corps for Locker - Britt/Wright/Hunter/Cook.
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I think that's why you can't really blame the Theo regime for missing on Darvish. The Theo regime may have been hearing differing reports than the ones leaked to the public. It's really hard to say on a blind bid.
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Tennessee really, really needs to win this game or Dooley is probably fired. And that would be awful for this program.
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No WR should be elected into the HOF until Cris Carter and Tim Brown get in.
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It may make me a homer, but I actually think this is possible. The offense has moved a little better in general with Hasselbeck under center and CJ showed signs last week of finally being CJ again (i.e. the offensive line decided to block for him). My concern is the defense, though. The talent is decent enough, but I'm becoming more convinced with each game that Jerry Gray is an awful DC.
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That's the Theo I thought and hoped we were getting in 2012. I agree with every word and hope he means it. They got me excited and then dashed me last year with the "every season is sacred" and "parallel fronts" stuff, so I hope it doesn't happen again.
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Yeah, people have argued that the Theo regime shouldn't be blamed because Cespedes' agent didn't give them a chance to counter the offer. If that's the case, then Cespedes' agent is incompetent. The Darvish thing is completely defensible, the Cespedes thing isn't at all.
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I'm thinking there were a couple things reported in the media that ended up being true - that a lot of teams were scared to bid highly for Darvish because of the Daisuke mess and that there were still 1-2 teams that were planning to blow everybody else's bid out. I would assume that the Theo regime had better info than me, but I wouldn't have expected $20 million to even come close to winning the bidding. However, it would have been very difficult for the Theo regime to know exactly how high the Rangers would go and then match that amount. My view on it is, they wanted Darvish if they could get him at their price, but they weren't going to take a chance of overpaying for him in a blind bid. I would have liked to see them bid more, but it's a perfectly defensible stance to say they made a competitive bid with everyone else and that's acceptable. Overall, even though I really wish we had gotten Darvish, I don't criticize the Theo regime for that miss at all.
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I was a big Chen fan when he came over to the states. He wasn't as good this year as his numbers would indicate (got kinda lucky), but he's just now in his prime and should get better as he goes along. Would've looked really nice grouped in with Garza and Shark going forward.
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Yeah, I remember the Theo regime showing interest in him as well. Like I said, not really a criticism, just thinking again how nice it would've been if we'd have been able to work something out for him. The Darvish thing still annoys me, simply because everything pointed to $20 million not being enough (lots of rumors that 1-2 teams were willing to go as high as Daisuke money or higher) and everything also pointed to Darvish being a considerably better bet than Daisuke (or maybe any other Japanese pitcher that had previously come over here) to be really good. Still though, it was a blind bid, making it really hard to criticize not winning. I hated that we passed on Cespedes at the time and I hate it more now. That and, to a much lesser degree, passing on Wei-Yin Chen are the most frustrating non-moves so far.
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A better option than Aramis for third, even considering the year Aramis had, was Chase Headley. This isn't really a criticism of the Theo regime since we don't know what the Padres were demanding (I'm sure a ton), but seeing how bad our third base situation is now and going forward, finding a way to get Headley would have been incredible. That said, I agree that Theo's biggest mistake to this point (besides not trying for 2-3 years) is not getting Cespedes. That one really hurts.