Derrick Henry, Bama's next RB bust?

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TNnative said:
With the way they have managed this franchise over the past 10 years, I view any player being drafted or traded to play in Nashville a bust in the making.

For the sake of those who still back the home state team, I hope whoever the GM is now runs things with more common sense than Bud Adams did in his later years.
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Bud Adams being gone is exactly why I don't understand this outlook. Why do the franchise's personnel failures under Adams have anything to do with the new GM? Are Reggie McKenzie and the Raiders doomed to busts forever because of Al Davis?
 
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VKAman said:
Bud Adams being gone is exactly why I don't understand this outlook. Why do the franchise's personnel failures under Adams have anything to do with the new GM? Are Reggie McKenzie and the Raiders doomed to busts forever because of Al Davis?
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While an Adams is making the coaching hires this franchise will always be mediocre at best.
 
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Amy is Bud's daughter, she is not like him that I can see as a season ticket holder. She hired a GM with experience working his way up. She has met with season ticket holders, bought a house in Nashville and given Mularkey complete freedom to hire his staff. I think our draft was very solid and really enjoy watching Marcus play quarterback. For the first time in years, this season appears to be promising but only time will tell.
 
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CPA said:
Amy is Bud's daughter, she is not like him that I can see as a season ticket holder. She hired a GM with experience working his way up. She has met with season ticket holders, bought a house in Nashville and given Mularkey complete freedom to hire his staff. I think our draft was very solid and really enjoy watching Marcus play quarterback. For the first time in years, this season appears to be promising but only time will tell.
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Interesting points. You could look at this glass half empty also.

She hired a first time GM. Waited about a year before she was seen by fans. Hired a head coach that went 2-7 last year and is 18-39 all time.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's an interesting approach.
 
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I pretty much only read the first post, but I'll come out and say that I think that on the contrary, Henry will be a very good NFL back. He might not have the shake and bake, but he's powerful, fast, and has good vision. We'll just have to see if the Titans can open any holes for him.
 
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CPA said:
Amy is Bud's daughter, she is not like him that I can see as a season ticket holder. She hired a GM with experience working his way up. She has met with season ticket holders, bought a house in Nashville and given Mularkey complete freedom to hire his staff. I think our draft was very solid and really enjoy watching Marcus play quarterback. For the first time in years, this season appears to be promising but only time will tell.
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Hiring Mularkey made me lose any faith I had in the management. We are lucky they didn't trade the Marriota pick like they were going to.
 
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jcv0010 said:
Marshawn is smaller and his pad level is lower when he runs
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Also Lynch had impressive lateral cut, imo. He couldn't turn on a dime but he had could cut back and to the side a good 4 yards. He used it to skip outside tackle a lot.
 
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KBVol said:
You sure he has "slow acceleration" and "needs time to get going"??


"According to "Sports Science," Henry's acceleration in the first 5 yards was the fastest time of any player analyzed at any position in the last three drafts.

He is also 26 percent faster than any other player tested in the last four drafts."
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If that is true it doesn't make sense to me why he didn't go in the first round. Are they saying that he has a faster acceleration than Gurley? 26% is a lot.
 
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VeryBest said:
Interesting points. You could look at this glass half empty also.

She hired a first time GM. Waited about a year before she was seen by fans. Hired a head coach that went 2-7 last year and is 18-39 all time.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's an interesting approach.
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So far she has done nothing to make me confident in her ability to turn the franchise around. Her buying a house in Nashville is just window dressing, she's not going to live there and meeting the fans, well that was simply PR.
 
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hog88 said:
So far she has done nothing to make me confident in her ability to turn the franchise around. Her buying a house in Nashville is just window dressing, she's not going to live there and meeting the fans, well that was simply PR.
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Seems like she's been at pretty much everything team related, not just meeting fans.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
Seems like she's been at pretty much everything team relayed, not just meeting fans.
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I hope I'm wrong but with season ticket sales slipping, attendance way down and after hiring a coach with a dismal record, she has to do something.

Maybe she'll turn it around and if so I'll happily eat my crow.
 
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hog88 said:
I hope I'm wrong but with season ticket sales slipping, attendance way down and after hiring a coach with a dismal record, she has to do something.

Maybe she'll turn it around and if so I'll happily eat my crow.
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The whole ownership thing is a mess but she is the one I always see trying to be involved and make controlling decisions for the team...and that's more than what we've had in the past so I can deal for now.

Honestly, hiring Mularkey was the only thing I have seen from the organization that made me think "same old Titans". A good draft, good pickups in FA, and hiring what looks like a winner in Jon Robinson gives me hope. We'll see what happens.
 
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Yeah he will be a bust. I saw a clip of him in a drill and he messed up twice in a span of 15 seconds on footwork and drill was done very slow for a rb however he has the size to change that just don't think he got it in him
 
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Derrick Henry looks good as pass-catcher so far for Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans Blog- ESPN

In 39 games at Alabama, Derrick Henry caught 17 passes.

So when the Tennessee Titans touted his abilities as a pass-catcher after drafting him on April 29th, it seemed like a stretch.

It appears Henry does have a good receiving skill set for a running back, and the Crimson Tide simply didn’t find a need to use it.

During the Titans recently concluded organized team activities, Henry looked comfortable and efficient in his chances to catch passes. And a 6-foot-3, 247-pound target coming out of the backfield can be a very attractive target for Marcus Mariota.

"I think he's been impressive, especially with the one-on-ones," coach Mike Mularkey said of Henry. "He's a very good route runner. Some of the team work we did and some of the routes that he ran, again I always say, there's a lot of young guys that everything's so fast with them, they speed up the process. I haven't seen that with him.

"He was very patient, getting the depths he was supposed to be, getting at and beating guys that were cover guys. So I've been pretty impressed with him. I said it out here (Thursday), we ran an angle route with Marcus, (Henry) is a big body. In that line of scrimmage, it's hard to see things going on with the rush coming, and he's a big body to get the ball to. Good area, space that he can snatch it with."

Henry said he takes pride in what he can do in the passing game and loves the idea of getting out in space with more of a one-on-one chance than he would get on a carry.

"I definitely want to do something like that, be a threat in the passing game, also in the run game, so I’m not one-dimensional," he said. "... (At Alabama) I never questioned the coaches, I would just do what I was told. ...

"They didn’t ask me to do much of that. But we’re putting a big emphasis on it here, catching the ball out of the backfield. It’s been fun, so I am glad that they do that here."
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