Threedee
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I'm still waiting on Mariota to produce serious fantasy dividends for me. Anyway, I do think the Titans offense has been developing well.
Tical21":29phedb9 said:We're a little salty right now. The Titans haven't earned the right to play with the Seahawks yet. Will be a learning experience. They'll play better against a team of our caliber next time. 27-6 Hawks.
The Hammer":22cg57pt said:Titans fan here,
This should be a good game this Sunday, though I expect it to be a low scoring one. A lot has changed in recent years for the Titans and we seem to be on the right track.
Some facts about the Titans:
-- Bad pass defense and good run defense. If you want to beat the Titans you need to do so through passing, which is not terribly difficult
-- that being said we have two new starers at CB -- a first round pick and a high priced free agent. And our young FS is quite good -- a third round pick from last year who was not even invited to the combine. So the pass defense is improving.
-- The Titans have a strong offensive line with probably the best OT tandem in the league -- both first round picks.
-- The run offense is one of the best in the league with Demarco Murray and Derrick Henry. The offense is also a very conservative and power based.
-- The pass offense, like the pass defense, is a work in progress. We also made major upgrades at WR with Eric Decker and a first round pick, Cory Davis. Despite missing the preseason Davis looks very good so far. We also have an old but very good starting TE.
-- Mariota is the real deal. He is good, getting better and learns from his mistakes. Most of us are huge fans. There is though a small but vocal group of Mariota haters among our fans base. I think for many of them they were not able to handle with the Titans actually being somewhat good last year. We had been bad for so long they did not know how to deal with success.
-- Special teams were a disaster last year and the FO put a lot into improving them. Adoree Jackson, first round CB, looks amazing returning punts.
To close, you guys are probably still the better team however the Titans are not the cakewalk they were the last time these two teams met.
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That was only due to one broken play(when Richardson was out) for 61 yards. Take that away from Hyde and his game was really 'meh'. Other than that play, the D played 'lights out' IMO.adeltaY":2d132o7z said:Oh man, Jurell Casey is like a better version of Mike Daniels and Orakpo is better than Perry or Matthews at this point... Our offense will almost certainly struggle to get a TD this game.
Theoretically, our run defense is elite and has a good shot of stopping the titans Offense, but we just saw the freaking Niners run for 8+ ypc against the Hawks at Clink. Mariota is an excellent passer and knows when to run as well. The outlook for this game is not good at all for the Seahawks.
Hawks46":20csn49p said:Well your good run defense and bad pass defense will be enough to win you the game.
Pete and Bevell (the OC) will stubbornly run into the teeth of that defense and refuse to attack it's weaknesses.
When we do have to pass, it will be play action, which will be totally unbelievable that point. It will also be longer developing pass routes so we'll bring your average pass rush into play against our biggest weakness, the OL.
The score will be very very close for 3 quarters when the defense will finally get tired due to playing 30 minutes in 3 quarters, allowing you guys to finally run.
Final score will be somewhere around Titans 16 to 19 and the Seahawks 6 to 9.