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: Tennessee Titans Minicamp Takeaways: Will Levis' Progress, Jha'Quan Jackson Hype, and an Emphasis on Press Coverage
🔥Easton explains his "brutal drop" and redemption catch that became the talk of the last day of minicamp (0:55)
🔥A minicamp review…
Nick Chubb, after 19 touches/gm: OUT
Dalvin Cook, after 20 touches/gm: OUT (2 wks)
Christian McCaffrey after 22 touches/gm: OUT (3 wks)
Derrick Henry after 31 touches/gm:
In 2022, the
#Titans
were 7-3… and ultimately got knocked out of the playoffs in Jacksonville on Week 18.
In 2023, the
#Jaguars
were 8-3… and ultimately got knocked out of the playoffs in Tennessee on Week 18.
Favor = repaid
The idea of DeAndre Hopkins is nice, but upon further review of his 2022 film it’s clear he’s washed.
Nobody should be foolish enough to pursue this player who is clearly on the decline. Simply not worth the risk.
The
#Titans
:
- Have 20 players on IR (1st jn NFL)
- Have dressed over 80 players this season (1st)
- Have 260 man games lost due to injury (1st)
TEN is the most injured team in the NFL, and yet they’re the AFC
#1
seed after playing the hardest SOS.
That shouldn’t be possible.
L’Jarius Sneed and Calvin Ridley being Titans means these two guys are free to move to the inside full-time, where they were at their absolute best in college.
That’s a very good and exciting thing.
🚨New
#Titans
stadium:
- $1.9B is the money on the table from the Adams family, the city and the state.
- The current plan is to have a retractable roof and build in the parking lots between Nissan Stadium and Interstate 24.
- The hope is to open for the 2026 NFL season.
- Lost his top-5 player in the NFL at the halfway point of the season
- Broke league record for most players on a team’s active roster in 1 szn
- 6-1 as an underdog
- 11-5, division champion, one win away from the AFC
#1
seed
Mike Vrabel is your 2021/22 NFL Coach of the Year.
New
#Titans
WR Calvin Ridley on his age:
I’m 29 on paper, but I’m really 25 in real life. Part of it is those two years off. But y’all are gonna see… I’m 25 in real life.
1. The hardest picture I’ve seen in a long time
2. One of these players in the league’s most valuable running back, and the other is one of the best defensive tackles in the game. You tell me who is who based on their build😂
Unbelievable. Pure insanity. A panic move by Amy Adams Strunk.
Said there was no way they’d fire him because frankly I didn’t think they would possibly do something so foolish. Apparently I had too much belief in leadership not mess this up so badly.
Unless there is a DRAMATIC
BREAKING: The
#Titans
are firing HC Mike Vrabel, sources tell
@BleacherReport
.
In six seasons at the helm, Vrabel went 54-45 while reaching the playoffs three times — including an AFC title appearance.
There are currently six NFL head coach openings:
- Panthers
- Raiders
- Chargers
- Falcons
- Commanders
- Titans
Tennessee is immediately near the top of the list of attractive landing spots.
High draft pick. Ton of money to spend. New, forward-thinking GM. Young talented QB.
Sources:
#Titans
OLB Harold Landry, who missed all of last season with a torn ACL and is questionable for Sunday, is expected to make his return against the
#Saints
.
Landry had 12 sacks in 2021 and signed a 5-year, $87.5M contract. A HUGE boost to the Tennessee defense.
On the Mike Vrabel hot seat, at the end of the day it’s as simple as this:
You just fired your GM for making a mess of your personnel and asset situation. Firing your proven head coach for not succeeding with said mess would be very hypocritical and shortsighted.
#Titans
For Titans fans, it’s sweet how much better Calvin Ridley and L’Jarius Sneed make their football team…
…but it’s even sweeter that it ROYALLY pisses off Colts and Jaguars fans in the process 😂
Jon Robinson did FAR more good for the
#Titans
franchise than he did bad. He should be remembered as one of the best general managers they’ve ever had, because he was.
So A.J. Brown requested to be traded from the
#Titans
. That is why he’s not in Tennessee today.
It’s not because they couldn’t pay him. It’s not because the front office kicked him to the curb.
It’s because he didn’t want to be a Titan anymore.
Turns out the Titans added Calvin Ridley
and Tyler Boyd
and L’Jarius Sneed
and Chidobe Awuzie
and JC Latham
and Lloyd Cushenberry
and T’Vondre Sweat
and Tony Pollard
and Kenneth Murray
and Sebastian Joseph-Day
Just to tie the franchise record for worst season in the modern era!
#Titans
(3-2) vs.
#Colts
(3-2-1) is the only NFL game this week between two teams with a winning record.
Obviously, that makes it the best game of the week. It’s just science.
Will Levis has thrown a whoooole lot of TD passes today.
He looks like he needs to graduate from facing the 3rd team defense. Wanting to see him throw against some stiffer competition.
That said, this has easily been his best day of camp thus far. Can’t think of a single bad…
The chance the
#Titans
have to see what they have in Will Levis after the bye is undeniable.
They must do it.
Assuming Tannehill’s ankle won’t be healed in time to play the Falcons in 2 weeks, it’s Levis or Willis.
Levis is the player you NEED to learn about, and now you can…
The
#Titans
past 372 days:
- Blew it in the divisional round of the playoffs as the
#1
seed
- Traded away AJ Brown
- Fired GM Jon Robinson
- lost 7 games in a row to blow the AFC South to the Jaguars
- Fired OC, OL & secondary coach
- AJ Brown is headed to his first SB
#Titans
CB1 Kristian Fulton has a tall task this week: defending passes from his old teammate Joe Burrow to his old teammate Ja’Marr Chase.
Surely they got some significant 1s-on-1s reps at LSU… will that familiarity play a role I wonder?
We as a society must hold Mike Vrabel to this commitment(ish) to wear a cowboy hat in the spirit of Bum Philips this weekend when the
#Titans
host the
#Texans
wearing their Oilers throwbacks
I swear my favorite thing about the
#Titans
is that no matter how good or bad they are, EVERY SINGLE SEASON there is at least 1 team whose year is derailed and you can directly link it to some voodoo Tennessee pulled on them. Without fail. They are the harbinger of doom for…
The
#Titans
are doing in Free Agency what good teams do in preparation for the Draft: eliminating your “MUST’s”.
A month ago, it felt like a MUST for the Titans to address OL, WR, & CB highly in the draft. It handicapped how you looked at each draft pick they had.
Adding Sneed
The most depressing aspect for
#Titans
fans of AJ Brown leaving IMO:
AJ is 24 years old. He only spent 3 seasons in Tennessee.
Odds are, unless he falls apart physically or suddenly isn’t that dog he’s always been anymore, he’s going to be remembered as an Eagle, not a Titan…
The
#Titans
will be playing on Sunday to either:
- Win the division (
#Colts
lose)
- Reclaim the AFC 1 seed (Patriots lose)
Either way, this game will mean a ton.
Every year the
#Titans
have a draft class that draft analysts give like a D+ and Titans fans are like nah man! A- at worst!
This year all the draft grader’s are like oh yea Tennessee let’s l go, look at this! Value rebuilding baby! A+ grade!
Annnnnnd fans are burning jerseys😂
Very excited to share that I’m gonna be a dad!
By the end of the summer I’m gonna be wearing white sneakers and cargo shorts and getting to the airport 4 hours early.
the
#Titans
are really going to be the first team to ever put out preseason-quality entertainment in primetime just for the NFL to *willingly* flex them back into primetime again in the next week😂
The worst loss of the Mike Vrabel era.
I haven’t ever explicitly called for firings before.
Heads should roll after this loss. Multiple. Sack up,
#Titans
management. Hold some people accountable. Have to make big changes, and now.
DeAndre Hopkins remains as advertised at
#Titans
camp.
Double (triple?) covered on an endzone post route, Tannehill places the ball way up and he climbs the ladder to snag it over every defender.
The kind of play you really weren’t seeing out here until he arrived.
The
#Titans
really went up to Green Bay on TNF and got their most solid win of the year, looked like they were putting it together at the right time…
Then Todd Downing got a DUI before people even got a chance to enjoy the win and the sky has been *actually* falling ever since.
If Will Levis continues to show serious signs of development and improvement this season with the
#Titans
, you know what is historically a great way to mess up that progress?
Taking away the coaching staff who developed him and forcing him into a brand new situation.
The
#Titans
and
#Colts
have produced 4 head coaches in the past 4 seasons.
Matt LaFleur: Titans OC➡️Packers HC
Nick Sirianni: Colts OC➡️Eagles HC
Arthur Smith: Titans OC➡️Falcons HC
Matt Eberflus: Colts DC➡️Bears HC
The AFC South has been Head Coach Depot lately.
#Titans
QB Ryan Tannehill named AFC Offensive Player of the Week.
He went 4/0 TD/INT, 23-32 for 287 yards and a 138.9 QB rating in his Week 18 performance.
Somebody should tell Rich Eisen that Ryan Tannehill came back in a game with a high ankle sprain twice this year because I’m pretty sure nobody has told him that bit of information yet.
The
#Titans
run defense is on a historic tear right now
No defense in the NFL has been better against the run over a 17-game stretch since 2007. They’ve allowed just 2.9 YPC over that timespan.
Watching folks in the
#Titans
circles awkwardly come around on Levis is VERY entertaining.
A whole lot of “well I watched a bunch of his tape and there’s actually more to like than I thought!”
My brother in Christ, were you not the one telling me he was a bust with the
14 point underdogs, on the road where they’ve looked terrible all year.
2 turnovers in the final 6 minutes, 2 touchdowns & a 2pt conversion in the final 3 minutes.
Rookie QB looks fantastic in primetime.
The most Tennessee
#Titans
game in a long time.
So, so, so Titans.
Since this tweet was sent—
#Titans
: NWI first 100+ yard receiver of the year, completions to 7 receivers, team scores 2 passing TD’s
A.J. Brown: 1 catch for 7 yards, thousands of furious fantasy owners, first loss of the season to the worst team in his division
8 massive mistakes that led to the
#Titans
losing, ranked:
1. Mike Vrabel kicking a FG down 4 instead of going for it. Simply cannot make that decision.
2. Tannehill under-throw of Hopkins for his 3rd INT
3. Tannehill under-throw of Hopkins for his 2nd
(1/3)
@PFF_Moo
Not to take away from your point, which is a good one, but reducing Travis effing Kelce to “a 34 year old TE” is some elite narrative bending😂
#Titans
fans running to figure out how to cut Ryan Tannehill after the season are either very new Titans fans, or have some incredible short-term memory😂 so foolish.
Glad to see Treylon wearing a Q-Collar now!
This is a relatively new device that applies gentle pressure to the back of the neck which increases blood volume in the brain, thus limiting how much the brain can move around in the skull and bang into the inner-walls causing
NEW: due to their unique injury situation, the NFL has directed the
#Titans
to begin releasing a weekly “Healthy Reserve” list, in an effort to save paper.
The Tannehill ➡️ Hopkins connection is heating up, no question about it.
Two consecutive completions to start this series, first a contested snag at the boundary and then a wide open crossing route for a sizable gain.
The
#Titans
offensive capability looks revolutionized with
Mike Vrabel has never fired a member of his
#Titans
coaching staff midseason. Ever.
If you think that’s going to change this week, with a team that is deeply flawed and out of the playoff race, to his special team coordinator, I think you’ve got another thing coming.
Offseason.
From a pure talent standpoint, the 2022 tandem of Burks-Woods will have a hard time being an immediate improvement over the tandem of Brown-Jones.
But from a production standpoint, all they have to do is surpass 94 receptions/1303 yards in order to be an upgrade.
#Titans
Tannehill continues to impress. Steps up in a collapsing pocket, keeps eyes downfield, finds Dez Fitzpatrick open right down the middle for what would’ve been a house call. Very nice play by both.
#Titans