Wait A Minute Are The Titans Good?
I’m real confused guys. The Titans have become one of the most fun teams in the NFL right under our noses without anyone realizing it. It doesn’t make any sense, but that is what has happened. The Titans just dunked hardcore all over the Packers and got a few people to notice them this past weekend, but really, it’s been this way most of the season. The Titans are fun! I don’t want to say good, at least genuinely good, not yet, but they are close, and they are playing fun football as they rise.
I don’t know how this happened. By all accounts it shouldn’t be happening. The Titans were the worst team in football last season. They replaced Ken Whisenhunt with Mike Mularkey, a coach who’s best known for getting fired from the cursed Jaguars after one season. He vowed to play “exotic smashmouth” and looked to waste the talent of a young QB who was built for anything but that. The offensive line, despite several first round picks, was bad. They picked up Demarco Murray, who was considered a product of the Dallas O-line after failing hard in Philly. The defense had basically no recognizable names on it besides Brian “More or less mediocre” Orakpo. The only other names on that D that anyone knows are the corpse of rapist Perrish Cox and Jason McCourty, I guess. By all accounts, this team should be terrible.
But they are fun! They are arguably good!
Is..is…Mike Mularkey a good coach? Or at least not the complete joke we thought he was? (Oh shit)
Is Marcus Mariota a secret star? He’s perfect in the Redzone! Have people only written him off because Titans? (Yes)
Is Delanie Walker awesome? (He is)
Is Demarco Murray actually good (Looks like it!)
Has the O-line finally come together? (Maybe!)
Can the average NFL fan name a defender on that roster now? (I highly doubt it!)
I really can’t say the Titans are truly good yet. Their wins so far have been against:
The Lions (Controversy in that win too)
Dolphins (Pre-figuring out Jay Ajai is good)
Browns (lol)
Jaguars (lol)
Packers (wait what? Oh, hold on, the Packers are bad this season. But still, a slaughter)
But missing in these somewhat unimpressive wins are the fact that they’ve also been competitive in their losses. Only the Vikings loss strikes me as truly what everything expected from this team, and even that game wasn’t too bad. Mariota had 2 TDs on that Defense. They played the Texans, Colts, Chargers, & Raiders fairly close. The Titans aren’t quite playoff caliber yet, but they might be next year, and could be this year if the Texans collapse (highly possible, kind of stunned the Texans have that many wins as it is).
But they lead the entire league in rushing. Top 10 in passing (only 2 teams have more passing TDs!). top half in receiving yards! They are #2 in total offense! The defense needs work, but this team is actually kind of good!
I started TheDrawPlay back after the Jeff Fisher era, around Mike Munchak (remember him?), so the Titans have been a joke as long as I’ve done this site. This is the first season when the Titans have been worth watching in the DP era, and I’m kind of excited about it.
As a big Mariota fan, the great sophomore season he’s having makes me incredibly happy.
I feel like the Titans are everyone’s #2 team, other AFCS fans notwithstanding. You’ll never want them to beat your team, but seeing them win feels nice, and they’re an easy team to bandwagon.
My #2 is Oakland (by the power of Al Davis)
Wait… Is that Arif?
Also, f**k the Titans.
Regards,
A Jaguars fan
As a Jaguars fan… things couldn’t get much worse.
Who are the Titians
Oh wait, didn’t they lose a Super Bowl by about 3 inches?
I even spelled Titans wrong, sorry (that was not on purpose)
No, they were in that Denzel Washington movie.
No, they were a 16th Century Venetian painter, known for colorful, yet realistic portraiture.
No, they were the precursors of the Greek gods.
No, he was asking about the Titians, not the Titans.
How long has Tom Brady isn’t the GOAT a tag?
No, they were In that Denzel Washington movie
Having gone to the University of Tennessee, the Titans are my AFC team so I’m happy for them. Mularkey’s system fits the roster extremely well.
I hope the thumbtacks win the division.
Yay! A Titans comic! And we’re not completely a joke. This makes me happy. Truth be told, we’re not a good team yet. But we are trending upward.
Colts: “We beat the Packers, another Lambeau loss for them! This can’t be anymore embarrassing for them!”
Titans: “Hold my beer.”
As a Vikes fan, my two favorite teams are the Vikings and whoever is playing the Packers. So this comic is right on!
I’m crying in my cheese.
Remember when Jameis threw more titans touchdowns than Mariota.
That was fun
Remember when everyone thought blingless bolo and his army of children were headed to tennessee?
That was fun
I remember when Mariota was injured and didn’t play the last 4 games of the 2015 season.
Remember when Mariota reached 40 career TD passes in 4 fewer games than Winston?
There’s a typo in the alt text, the first “not” should be a “now”
Am I the only one who thinks that in hindsight, Super Mario Sunshine was a better game than Super Mario 64?
Yes, but that comes from a guy who think sonic adventure 1 is the greatest game ever
Sonic Adventure 1 was awesome when it came out
it aged extremely poorly
You sumed up the entire sonic series.
Sanic Heroes is way better than the Adventure Series.
But Sanic Mania will crush everything.
I take full credit for the Titans’ turnaround … I got fed up with the NFL a couple of weeks ago (already!) and stopped watching SO OF COURSE they start winning!
Super Mario Sunshine was pretty decent, I thought. Metroid Prime just got in the way of it by being flat-ass-out amazing.
And Melee
Metroid Prime is #3 all time on my gaming pantheon that game was incredible
At least they aren’t the Browns about to go 0-16 and about yo plan a wunlesd parade to power up the Factory of Sadness…
Ok we have to call it the “wunlesd parade” the Brounds and the GPODAWUND demand it.
You might be puzzled by how the Texans have so many wins….
As a Texans fan, the 4th ranked defense has kept them afloat, even without J.J. Watt. Yeah, the offense is extremely underwhelming, the passing game is dead last, but their run game is 5th in the league & looking better week to week. All that being said, they’ve already beaten the Titans once this season, & the score was misleading. It took a late comeback to bring that game within a TD. The schedule is pretty easy for the Texans from here on out. The toughest game they have left is this Monday against Oakland in Mexico. They have the Chargers, Packers, Colts, Jags, Bengals, & Titans left. Just based on that with the Titans being 2 games back, they won’t catch the Texans. The Texans may not be exciting this season, but they just win against the teams they’re supposed to beat.
Still 9-7 with a wildcard loss to AFC west 3rd place/Miami
This comic should have been about me and my struggle with Green Bay-
“We just dunked on the Packers”
*groan*
HA!
You’re on when you shit face us Bears next Sunday.