Hunter to the Titans

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#101
This is why no one will take us serious.How meany WR do we need to draft in the first two rounds.......on a side note glade we got hunter.
 
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The last need the titans need is to use another high pick on a receiver.
Not impressed with their draft.
 
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Roustabout said:
The last need the titans need is to use another high pick on a receiver.
Not impressed with their draft.
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WRs 3-5 are meh to bad and Britt's likely being shown the door next year unless he avoids run ins with the police and suspensions or the head coach changes (and even those outside of the organization know it

It was still a pretty sizable need
 
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Kendall wright is a slot receiver. We needed a #2 guy to stretch the field. That's exactly what Hunter does. Britt is healthy, Wright is more experienced after a strong rookie showing, and Hunter has natural ability out of this world.

Hunter is a great pick. The titans have had a top 5 draft, so far.

And those awful second round picks were under a different FO. Zach Brown is showing signs of being a great LB already. This staff can draft really well, IMO. It just goes under the radar.
 
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LotteryPick said:
If. He's going to have a chance to prove himself.
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Yes, but the feeling is that if next season ended today, he'd be gone unless there was a new head coach...he's starting in the dog house, not out of it



Here was an earlier post I wrote about it:


Espn has said it for a while now, almost all off season at least. It's that the coaching staff is sick of him being in police-related newsworthy incidents back to back pretty much every offseason; they don't want to be paying (this much) for a guy who seemingly every year they've had to spend the start of each season worrying how many games (being paid essentially to play all of them) he's going to miss (or if he'll play at all)...also the back to back injury season haven't helped


But it's pretty much the general feeling from the team's media at this point that if Munchak's still the coach next season, then Britt's not going to be there.

If he's fired, who knows...but it's kind of a "straighten up and fly right" thing with him this offseason/year
 
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TrueOrange said:
Yes, but the feeling is that if next season ended today, he'd be gone unless there was a new head coach...he's starting in the dog house, not out of it



Here was an earlier post I wrote about it:


Espn has said it for a while now, almost all off season at least. It's that the coaching staff is sick of him being in police-related newsworthy incidents back to back pretty much every offseason; they don't want to be paying (this much) for a guy who seemingly every year they've had to spend the start of each season worrying how many games (being paid essentially to play all of them) he's going to miss (or if he'll play at all)...also the back to back injury season haven't helped


But it's pretty much the general feeling from the team's media at this point that if Munchak's still the coach next season, then Britt's not going to be there.

If he's fired, who knows...but it's kind of a "straighten up and fly right" thing with him this offseason/year
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Which is why he'll get a chance. He's done fine this offseason *knocks on wood* and it's a contract year for him, so I wouldn't be surprised in the least if he went off this season.
 
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bamawriter said:
WR wasn't worth trading up for. There were much bigger needs. The Titans better pray he breaks the mold of every UT pick they've made other than Haynesworth.
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After taking a G in the 1st Rd...no there were not bigger needs. Britt being on the field for a full season is closer to a pipe dream than a probability, and the rest of the WR's are all average, except the last years 1st Rd WR, Wright. So, that means if the Titans thought like you did, we'd be stuck with a lame WR group, whose best player is Washington. We couldn't even find a trading partner for him. That tells you what other teams thought of him.

The WR group has been the weakest part of the whole team because those in charge kept settling for average WR's. If they had spent some 1st Rd picks on WR's when McNair was playing and Vince Young, we'd have seen the Superbowl at least once or twice since our last visit.

They got one of the top CB's in the draft (Wilson was projected by many as a 2nd Rd pick), and they think Lavar Edwards was overlooked because of all the talent LSU had on the D-Line. When you can get 5 sacks as a rotational DE, you aren't chopped liver.
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
Sucks for hunter. The Titans suck, I'm sure after his career at UT he's ready to be on a team that wins games
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The year before last, with largely the same group of players, they went 9-7 and missed the playoffs by the length of a frog hair. The OL was decimated by injuries last year, and they fired the OC. With all the moves they made in Free Agency and the draft, this team will flip the script and contend for the division title. Hunter gives this team a 2nd Big WR and Wright should be one of the best slot WR's in the league.

The 49ers sucked and turned it around in a single year. So did the Seahawks. The Falcons sucked until they drafted Matt Ryan. So, your opinion means very little.
 
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Roustabout said:
The last need the titans need is to use another high pick on a receiver.
Not impressed with their draft.
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Well that makes one of you. They actually drafted well this year, filling positions of need at OL, DE, LB ,DB, and yes... WR. Hunter was a very good pick. No way Britt will be here next year. Definitely needed a WR to go with Wright and... oh that's right, they don't anybody else, especially when you listen to some things coming out of Baptist Sportspark about getting rid of Washington.
 
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pualsline said:
It's my understanding that they don't plan to be able to hold on to him after his contract expires at the end of the year. Could be wrong though.
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More of, at this point, they don't plan on keeping him relative to his constant off the field (& injury) troubles
 
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bamawriter said:
It should also been said that the Titans have a history of abysmal second round picks. It would be great if Hunter could break that trend.
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Michael Roos, Akeem Ayers and Zach Brown are not abysmal. It's too early to call Ayers or Brown great pickups but they are definitely decent/good pickups.

LenDale White and Jason Jones were also decent pickups and gave the Titans a couple of good years. Though Jones' production is likely mostly due to Jim Washburn.

Sen'Derrick Marks, Chris Henry and the entire 2004 group were pretty abysmal... especially Chris Henry. But, to be fair, the entire selection pool of the 2004 2nd Round looks bad in retrospect.
 
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Let's not forget the year the Titans traded out of the first round and got Ben Troupe, Antwan Odom, and the kid from Hawaii whose name I can't even recall in the second. Was that '04?
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
After taking a G in the 1st Rd...no there were not bigger needs. Britt being on the field for a full season is closer to a pipe dream than a probability, and the rest of the WR's are all average, except the last years 1st Rd WR, Wright. So, that means if the Titans thought like you did, we'd be stuck with a lame WR group, whose best player is Washington. We couldn't even find a trading partner for him. That tells you what other teams thought of him.

The WR group has been the weakest part of the whole team because those in charge kept settling for average WR's. If they had spent some 1st Rd picks on WR's when McNair was playing and Vince Young, we'd have seen the Superbowl at least once or twice since our last visit.

They got one of the top CB's in the draft (Wilson was projected by many as a 2nd Rd pick), and they think Lavar Edwards was overlooked because of all the talent LSU had on the D-Line. When you can get 5 sacks as a rotational DE, you aren't chopped liver.
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One thing that is curious is the Zaviar Gooden pickup.

We'll have 2 OLBs having 4.5 or faster 40' times. Given the style of defense that Gregg Williams (though not DC in an "official capacity") likes to play... having 2 very fast OLBs is interesting.

Ironically enough... Gooden was compared to Zach Brown. If we get another 90+ tackle, 5 sack, 3 INT OLB I'll be happy.
 
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bamawriter said:
Let's not forget the year the Titans traded out of the first round and got Ben Troupe, Antwan Odom, and the kid from Hawaii whose name I can't even recall in the second. Was that '04?
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Yeah, that was '04. We won't talk about '04.

Regardless, the point remains. The Titans haven't been stellar in the 2nd Round but they've been far from abysmal.
 
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The Titans 2nd rounders since moving to Tennessee:

Joey Kent
Samari Rolle
John Thornton
Andre Dyson
Tank Williams
Tyrone Calico
Ben Troupe
Travis LaBoy
Antwan Odom
Michael Roos
LenDale White
Chris Henry
Jason Jones
SenDerrick Marks
Akeem Ayers
Zach Brown

Even granting Ayers and Brown a pass because they are so new, how many on this list were worthy of a second round pick? Roos and Rolle?
 
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