wow, way to treat the man who took you to the superbowl and made you relavent like a piece of crap Tennessee.


We all knew it was going to happen, but damn.



Look for tennessee to finish near or dead last in their division and maybe the league.

I know the guy has had a ton of injuries, but essentially they want Vince Young to be the second coming of Steve Mcnair and then some, I don't blame him a bit for not restructuring again given the state of affairs, hell he'll probably make Baltimore solid if he can stay healthy.

The Titans are idiots

i just heard this on the radio. baltimore gave up a 4th rounder i think. i hope mcnair takes the ravens to the super bowl...and they lose to the eagles

Joo gotta get past the NFC East first, mang!

when your at work today, tell TO i send my love, and then kick him in the nuts for me

The way he's acting these days, I think he would just smile at me and tell me to have a nice day.

As a Titans fan I hate to see him treated the way he was treated. But at the same time there is no better time than for the Titans to go in a different direction. They arent a superbowl contender this year with Mcnair, and the future QB is already in place.

But there is no way they are last in the division or the league this year. They had a great offseason, despite Mcnair, and Volek is certainly a capable starter to at least start the year. This is a .500 type team this season.

.500? Riiiight.

The offensive line will need to get better, you have two #2 wide receivers in Givens and Bennett, neither of whom can handle what it takes to be #1, PacMan wasn't very good at corner and Reynaldo Hill wasn't either. PacMan is a lot like Deion Sanders, but with half the coverage ability.

Plus, Volek has been decent as a spot-starter, but he's never been "the" guy. He may be a decent bridge until they start VY (which will be prematurely no matter when they put him in, because it will likely be this year), and when Vince comes in, expect growing pains out the ass. Plus, good luck getting 12 sacks out of KVB ever again.

The Titans will win five or six games this year, maybe 7 if Chris Brown doesn't get injured... again.

The Oline is ok, not great but not terrible. Givens, Bennett, a healthy Calico, and the 3 rookies from last year who should be better (though Jones is coming off an injury) is a pretty solid receiving group. Henry, Brown, and White should be a very solid backfield. The CBs have to get better I agree, but considering they were both rookies last year I would think they will get better. And we improved our safeties and LB corp, and our DL was pretty solid anyway. There is no reason this team cant be right around .500. Theyve improved in every area of the field with the exception of QB. But, they also now have money to go out and get a few more players. They have brought Ty Law in on several occasions, and he would certainly help fix the CB position. Not to mention its a good chance that Kerry Collins will be brought in. Which, I am by no means big on Collins, but he is a guy capable of starting if Billy Volek for some reason cant handle it.

They've gotten better, but going from a 5 win season and then a 4 win season to 8 wins is pretty improbable when you rely on so many things to get better. I guess anything could happen, but that's a lot of things left to fall into place for them to make it to the .500 mark.

I guess I just really want to see them pay for what they did to McNair. I don't care if they sat him down and said "Look, we really don't have a place for you," but they fucking locked him out of the practice facility without talking to him. That's ridiculous. He's a great player and a great guy who didn't deserve that.

good now we can beat steve mcnair twice a year

When they were healthy the last 2 seasons they were competitive. They were just young, and had no depth. So when injuries started mounting it would just kill them. But now the younger guys are a bit older, and they had a nice free agency year, so they have more depth. The only thing I think that needs to fall in place is the QB position, which I certainly think is possible with Volek and a high probably of Collins. They arent going to win the superbowl by any means, by I could see anywhere from 7-9 wins being probable.

The I love Mcnair as much as anybody. But, a lot of this whole situation was brought on by him and his agent as much as it was by the Titans. He knew they couldnt keep him with a 23 million dollar cap hit, no team in the league could have. They tried to renegotiate, and it just wasnt working. Which is fine on both accounts, because the reality of it is that Mcnair wanted out because he knew that YOung would be the starter here by next season, and he wants to start for 2 or 3 more years. That wasnt happening in Tennessee. And you cant blame the titans from wanting to protect themselves from being forced to pay a guy 23 million because he got hurt during offseason workouts. They might have gone a bit overboard, but if Mcnair wanted to work it and be in Tennessee he most certainly could have made it happen.

Understatement of the century

Stop. Just stop. Your team stinks. Your city stinks. The only team/city that is worse is armPittsburgh.

Well Billy Volek is no Doug Johnson for sure, he's capable no doubt, but at this point they may very well want to plead Kerry Collins to come in but he might even be behind Billy Volek. I love Vince Young but even he knows he's going to need a year of prep, and it would have been a hell of a lot better to sit behind a guy like Mcnair rather than a guy like Kerry Collins. This is almost as bad as the hawks getting rid of Dominique Wilkins....almost. It probably is time to move on and perhaps Mcnair forced his way out, but this is not the ideal situation for the Titans to flourish at all. They have some good pieces no doubt but no cohesion. Ty Law would make a difference. Maybe Kerry Collins could help bridge the gap. I just don't know that they are any better than Jacksonville, and obviously they won't contend with Indianapolis. I guess they do still have the Texans to beat up on.....maybe. Perhaps 6-10. 8-8 would be a great year. I don't think they are up to mediocrity yet.

Treating the winningest quarterback in franchise history (at least in Tennessee forgive me Warren Moon if I'm wrong) like that is flat wrong, simply, there is a double standard as to how teams do business and how players do business. He left a lot of blood sweat and tears on that field in Nashville, how it went down is just wrong.

Mcnair could well make the Ravens a consistant if not prolific offense. If the defense returns to form....watch out. Kyle Boller is praying he fails that physical.

i think it's just about time for the *official cleveland browns thread*

But he also wanted out of Tennessee. Its no different than SF moving out Montana so Steve Young can get his shot. In the salary cap era you cant hold on to high price players forever, you just cant. I would have loved to have seen both Steve and Eddie retire Titans, but Eddie was asking too much for what he was worth, and Steve wouldnt renegotiate to what he is worth. This isnt 2003 Mcnair anymore, he has been average at best the last two seasons. Mcnair and his agent were forcing a trade or a release because they knew Young would be the starter by next season. Its hard for me to hold this against the titans to be honest, except for the fact that he probably wouldnt have gotten hurt lifting weights. But I cant blame them for protecting themselves.

yeah there's a lot of truth in that. Still. They do have his number, maybe they could call him at home first, before he comes down and they kick him out like he's some scrub.

Nobody has an issue with the fact that they wanted to unload McNair. I think everybody understands that. What people don't understand is how they left him out with the morning's trash. You just don't do what Titans management did to ANYBODY, let alone a guy who put your franchise on the map.

Thats not really know though. The Titans say that his agent knew they werent going to let him in, and his agent purposely didnt tell him so he could force the trade or release sooner by raising all this stink. Mcnairs agent was playing a game here just as much, if not more than the Titans front office.