Titans Post game discussion

[barrett]

There is nothing better in the NFL than playing poorly and still winning. It gives a coach plenty of ammo to keep the team's attention during the week while not making them pay for it. It is especially nice in the early season. This is a league where you don't want to be that good in September because they hand out the Lombardi to whomever has a good January rather than the team who had the best year.

On offense we struggled from the 2nd drive until the 4 minute mark of the 4th quarter. It cracks me up that we dropped back for 50 passes today despite running for 6 ypc on 28 carries, and people still want to whine through the whole game day thread about how conservative we are. Today we couldn't pass block a lick and still went shotgun a ton. I wish we were more conservative today and ran it 35-40 times. We may have had a better day pass protecting.

To everyone who has argued in the past that Ben Tate runs better than Foster, it has looked true for 2 weeks in a row. I thought Foster looked much better today than last week, but Tate looked better than I've ever seen him. He is even catching the ball. My one complaint is I wish he turned immediately up field after catching it like he does when he carries. He likes dancing in place after catching it.

I really hope Andre is ok because he is playing great. I also love that after Tennessee rolled their coverage to AJ and had great success with it for the 2nd half, Hopkins grew up before our eyes. Even when Hopkins struggled, Schaub just kept going to him because it was the right read. Clearly Hopkins earned a whole lot of trust in camp.

Our OL was a mess today. We need to figure out how to run an effective draw or screen, because teams are loading up on us and our OL is not getting it done.

Maybe someone else can comment on Defense or on our Kickoff specialist and why he can't make a FG.