Titans @ Chargers Pre Game Thread | (Wk 15)

[QSmokey]

Are you upset the Chargers won last night? Do you want the Chargers to lose to the Titans next week?

I'm gonna quote jamrock: "I’m looking for consistency now. Can they start to string together good performances?"

If they lay and egg against TN, then nothing's changed. If they CAN string together good performances (like, for the rest of the year), that would be something. But until they do, I'm still very skeptical. And to answer your questions: No and No.

[QSmokey]

It would be nice to see Qsmokey give the defense and the defensive game plan the credit it is due as well as the offensive game plan and play calling. Maybe even admit the injuries have mattered... I doubt it but it would be nice.

It was a good win, Jon. I've already said that. I've also posted, on more than one occasion, that the injuries can't be ignored. I'm just not willing to blame EVERY failing of this coaching staff on injuries. Because, like I've said before, there WILL be injuries to key players every year. If the coaches need 100% health (or close to it) to succeed, then that's never going to happen. By the same token, it falls on the FO to fill the roster with quality backups (and to draft better).

[Boltx]

You know, a win changes the flavor of all the posts, doesn't it? Last week at this time - after an embarrassing beat down at the hands of the Raiders - all the criticism directed at Staley & Co. (and Telesco) was well deserved. Now, a nice win against a team with a winning record (first one this season), and guys are lining up to enshrine Staley in the HOF. And all 10 years of futility with Telesco is, magically, forgotten.

It was a good win. I'm super happy for Herbie, who managed to silence the unwarranted criticism that *he's* been taking lately. But "turning the corner", for me, isn't just a one game thing. It's a pattern of improvement and, most importantly, consistency. Can we realistically say that's been achieved?

I'm certainly not enshrining Staley but if they make the playoffs after this many crippling injuries would be no small feat and Staley would deserve a ton of the credit for that. We should acknowledge that IMO.

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

It's about getting hot at the right time if you ask me, to many teams walk into the playoffs with great records only to be illuminated in one or two games. I'd rather be a wild card that's just got health and hot than a front runner that shut it down the last game or two...

[QSmokey]

It's about getting hot at the right time if you ask me, too many teams walk into the playoffs with great records only to be illuminated in one or two games. I'd rather be a wild card that's just got health and hot than a front runner that shut it down the last game or two...

Jon...your spelling, alone, is worth me continuing to post here.

[QSmokey]

I'm certainly not enshrining Staley but if they make the playoffs after this many crippling injuries would be no small feat and Staley would deserve a ton of the credit for that. We should acknowledge that IMO.

And I WILL acknowledge that...IF it happens. But I've got to see it happen first.

[ghost]

Jon Robinson. For owner Amy Adams Strunk to fire her general manager, a man who built the team on its way to a third straight division title, with five weeks left in the regular season is certainly her right. But what purpose does it serve, other than to embarrass him? Obviously, Robinson has had some bad personnel calls recently (the disastrous 2020 first-round pick of tackle Isaiah Wilson, the trade for a broken-down Julio Jones and free-agent signing of a disinterested Vic Beasley in 2021, the trade of A.J. Brown last draft weekend), so dissatisfaction with him was probably to be expected. I’ll never understand why Robinson couldn’t figure out a way to keep one of the league’s top receivers, Brown, last April. But the timing of this firing came totally out of left field, even, apparently, to the head coach Robinson hired. “I was informed of the decision. This wasn’t a decision that included me,” Mike Vrabel said. So why is a GM who built the AFC top seed last year gone? Good question.

After three days of saying nothing other than a perfunctory statement, Strunk spoke to AP writer Teresa M. Walker. Although Walker said in the story that Strunk told her she couldn’t ignore the holes on the roster, the owner wasn’t more specific than that. “I want to be one of those elite teams that people are always scared of,” Strunk told Walker. “And eventually it’s up to me to make those kinds of decisions that get us there.” Say this for Strunk: She’s got a short memory. In a four-week span in midseason last year, the team Robinson constructed beat Buffalo, Kansas City and the Rams, soon-to-be Super Bowl champions, by a combined 39 points.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-fmia-week-14/

[C’monchargers]

When you play the Titans these days, the focus automatically goes to Henry and how to stop him. This time, I would say, the X factor here is not Henry, it is absolutely a must for them to shut down Chig Okonkwo.

[Riverwalk]

I think what happened is that Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel played into Staley's defensive game plan and didn't want to adjust. And, yes, I think Staley borrowed heavily from what the 49ers did the week before.

McDaniel should have run the ball more. Many teams have made that mistake this season. Charger pass defense is better than run defense and for some stupid reason, the teams Chargers have beat seem to get impatient, or forget that, and start passing their way to defeat.

[OG619FrightninLightnin]

I'm certainly not enshrining Staley but if they make the playoffs after this many crippling injuries would be no small feat and Staley would deserve a ton of the credit for that. We should acknowledge that IMO.

Honestly outside of the LAC fan base, if they make the postseason, there will be talk of COY for Staley

[Berserker76]

I'm gonna quote jamrock: "I’m looking for consistency now. Can they start to string together good performances?"

If they lay and egg against TN, then nothing's changed. If they CAN string together good performances (like, for the rest of the year), that would be something. But until they do, I'm still very skeptical. And to answer your questions: No and No.

That's a fair enough take, imho.

[ghost]

Same. And I WILL acknowledge that...IF it happens. But I've got to see it happen first.

I will acknowledge what happens when it happens, and that's a two-way street.

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We already know who the GOAT of this season is, next four weeks will reveal who the goat is.