The Time Is Right To Hop On The Titans Bandwagon
Go Titans! Hop on that bandwagon, boys! You finally earned a bandwagon! I’m on it.
So first off, a lot of crazy stuff happened this weekend (RIP Gus Bus, Jax got SAVAGED, which makes my comic about Brock Osweiler last week retrospectively timely), but because of holiday travels I must confess the 3 comics this week were pre-planned, so you’ll have to wait for a SAVAGED comic. I got lucky that I made a Titans comic that ends up going live right after they pulled off an incredible upset in KC. Go Tits!
This is the second comic I’ve made this year about the Titans in this format, so I’ve really already talked about how much fun this team is. It’s a good team to watch, and at this point they very well may be capable of beating anyone. They dunked on the Packers, and beat the Broncos and Chiefs in consecutive weeks. This team deserves your attention. So instead of re-hashing that, I want to take a moment and make an argument that maybe, just maybe…We were too quick and too harsh on coach Mike Mularkey. GASP!
If you’ve got the time, give Mularkey’s Wikipedia page a read. That’s what I did when the Titans kept winning, because surely Mike Mularkey can’t be a good coach, right? Well…maybe he isn’t that bad. Mularkey is best known for his previous stint with the Jaguars. A disaster that lasted a single season. A 2-14 crapfest of a year. That screams bad coach, until you go and look at that 2012 roster. Look at that final roster. Look at it. It’s trash. No coach is going to win 5 games with that roster. The Jags current roster is leagues better than that pile of horse dung, and Gus Bradley got 4 years and he got fired before he could match that 4-12.
So what about the rest of Mularkey’s career? What’s he done? His only other stint as a coach was 2 seasons with the Bills in 2004-2005. His first year started bad, going 0-4, but they managed to reach 9-7 and barely missed the playoffs. Taking the Bills near the playoffs is an accomplishment. His following year they went 5-11 (JP Losman is a bad QB) and the team was indefensibly bad. However Mularkey wasn’t fired, at least technically. He resigned his post, something Doug Marrone would do a decade later. Something about the Bills must really sap a man’s desire.
His time as a coordinator shines brighter. In Atlanta, he got to work with rookie Matt Ryan and together they made mostly beautiful music. He was named Assistant coach of the year in 2008 by pro football writers of America, and also received accolades in 2011.
I realize this isn’t a spectacular argument, but if you watch the Titans this year I think it becomes clear that maybe we shouldn’t have left them for dead the instant we found out they were sticking with Mularkey. This team is flawed but it’s working. It’s genuinely working, and I’m happy to see it.
Also the 49ers are a trash team
it’s like a self help book
i kept thinking snake oil salesman, but i guess they’re basically the same
Go Steelers!
Who are these “Titans” you speak of [again]?
Watch the titans bandwagon explode into the ashes of the Gus Bus and the other former resigning bills coach this week as Tom Coughlin gets his first nfl head coach job back
*Marrone is coaching J’ville this week and Coughlin will probably be announced the 2017 Jaguras head coach in 2 weeks
Yep, if there’s one thing to be concerned about, it’s the Jaguars.
Mularkey was also great as the Steelers OC back in the day before he left for BUF. My friend and I were just discussing about how he was perhaps judged too harshly on two bad seasons with no one remembering his actually quite impressive first season with the Bills.
I like how the sky slowly morphs from niner’s red to titan’s blue.
Very fancy.
“Is that an actual team jersey you’re wearing?”
That was, essentially, my reaction when I first saw the Titans uniforms way back when. The different colored shoulder look was commonly used for practice jerseys at the time and I derided the Titans for wearing them because of that. In retrospect, they really aren’t that bad.
Still, I’m surprised they’ve stuck with them this long, but maybe I shouldn’t be since they still use those awful 90s-refugee helmets. Incomplete stripes, beveled letter/thumbtack, flames… it’s a design that would have caused even the Arena League of the 1990’s to pause.
I’ve been on the Titans bandwagon since 1999. Defense was what helped the Titans win the last two games, but you had this in the can it seems so you get a pass.
Yeah, looking on that final roster, and the names on IR… you’d have to be Jesus himself to win five games.
i never thought I’d see another year where the Titans and raiders could both make the playoffs
Also smash mouth is the greatest song ever
Band*
The greatest band ever
Dave, did you see Cam Wake and Suh execute their team-up move on Bryce Petty? Seriously, I was waiting for Suh to drag a gatorade bucket onto the field.
Reference:
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/wake-and-suh-show-off/
Pretty sure Bryce Petty was dead after that hit.
Dave, Have you ever listened to Smash Mouth’s first album?
It’s really good
The one with walking on the sun?
I liked it when I was young and stupid
the only correct follow-up is “i’m still young and stupid”
As opposed to older and stupid?
Zing!
😉
Like I said before, I’m taking full credit for the turnaround. Now that I don’t watch or care about the NFL, of course my team starts doing well!
The titans are team theifs and will get thrashed by the Texans. A thrashing by the Texans is a only a touchdown differential but still.
Go to YouTube and search for the mashup of All Star and Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September Ends. Is that a little more bearable?
Dave, I didn’t know how much I needed that hoodie until now. Three stripes and all, especially room for booze.
I think you meant “Go Tites!” Otherwise, it’s not PC (phonetically correct): “Titans” doesn’t rhyme with “kittens.”
Dear Jesus that 49ers game was ugly. Aldrick Robinson and Levine Toilolo tore them up. Kaep and the offense are regressing back to bad against a really bad defense starting 3 rookies and missing their shut down corner. If the 9ers and Browns played I honestly think the Browns would win.
The Browns are a better team, though with Bobert playing QB I don’t think they’d beat the 49ers. Maybe if Kessler could make it through the game intact. Still, I hope the 49ers win another game so the Browns don’t have to be winless to get the first pick.
Before the season started, i honestly thought the Jaguars could make the playoffs this year.
The tag “suicide” is a surprisingly popular one on this site.
“Go Tits”
I’ll jump on the bandwagon just so I go around yelling that
You realize that if you make a SAVAGE strip, Spilly may actually for-real explode. #H2P
And that bandwagon just crashed & burned