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Titolo: SONO FURIBONDO!

Ma perchè i MITICI TITANS non vincono piu?
Ma perchè non torniamo al Superbowl?
Ma perchè ogni anno è sempre la stessa storia?
PERCHE' IL 70% DELLA SQUADRA E' IDENTICO AL 1999???
Spero in bene!!!

 PERCHE' IL 70% DELLA SQUADRA E' IDENTICO AL 1999???
Perche' si rifiutano di dare indietro le maglie ?  ;O)
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se non ha la forza per essere cattivo.

JOK3R wrote:
Io, furibondo che son iooooooooooo, furibondo che non sono altrooooo....
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Saluti
Gabriele
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HAIL TO THE REDSKINS! & GO TRIBE!

Io, furibondo che son iooooooooooo, furibondo che non sono altrooooo....
clap clap clap
Danilo Sacco ti fa una sega a te ... ti fa .....
mittticcco Gab

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Ma perchè non cambi squadra?!   ;-)
Sorry...
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I Titans nn vincono piů perchč negli ultimi due anni hanno perso la maggior
parte dei migliori giocatori a causa del salary cap. Due anni fa (l'anno di
Steve Mcnair Co-MVP) č stata forse l'ultima occasione per vincere: se
durante i playoff Mcnair non avesse dovuto giocare su una gamba sola (anzi
su mezza), probabilmente saremmo riusciti ad arrivare al superbowl e forse
di piů.
L'anno scorso č iniziata la ricostruzione. Ora siamo la squadra piů giovane
della lega e il coaching staff č uno dei migliori in assoluto: credo che fra
un paio di stagioni i Titans torneranno a dire la loro.
Nick
PS: cmq del 1999 rimangono in pochissimi!!!

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Io intendo oltre al roster anche il modo di pensare, purtroppo, e la 
dirigenza. Le basi dei titans sono le stesse ( alludo al binomio 
Fisher-McNair) Ho una domanda: meglio i vecchi OILERS delle cui ceneri sono 
nati i TITANS, o i TITANS stessi? 

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 nati i TITANS, o i TITANS stessi?
Non capisco tutto questo accanimento contro la dirigenza ed il coaching
staff: fino all'anno scorso i Titans avevano il miglior record complessivo
delle ultime 5 regular season di tutta l'NFL (o una cosa simile). Fino
all'anno scorso erano tra le squadre migliori della lega: è normale che le
cose cambino.
Ora come ora non puoi criticare il sistema TITANS. Se fra 5 anni saranno
ancora una squadra da fondo classifica, allora avrai le tue ragioni, ma per
ora il tuo discorso non vale.
Nick

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Nn e accanimento xcarità, io sono un tifoso. Io però spero che a breve 
termine ci sia una sterzata positiva, almeno x arrivare a .500.
E a volte (ultimamente di meno) ho visto del caos tattico che, parlandoti da 
ex qb dilettante, nn deve esistere. Ma nn mi sto accanendo contro i TITANS, 
assolutamente! E per rispondere a un altro che mi ha detto di cambiare 
squadra, io seguo i titans dal 1999, e una fede nn si discute! 

Visto che sei un tifoso dei Titans leggiti questo articolo scritto da un giornalista (un po' invidioso) della Bay Area...
REMEMBER THE TITANS 
Tennessee's rebuilding plan might be a model for NFL 
- Ira Miller
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 
On the 53-man roster of the Tennessee Titans, who play the Raiders on Sunday, there are 40 players who were drafted by the 
Titans, including 23 in the last two years. Tennessee has 29 first- or second-year players on its team. 
The Titans, who have the NFL's youngest roster, are rebuilding, and doing it by playing kids, and they could provide an object 
lesson on those two issues for the Bay Area's struggling NFL teams. 
Rebuilding: That's a word that hasn't crossed Al Davis' lips. The Titans, who won the AFC title in 1999 and had a 56-24 record 
over a five-year period ending in 2003, fell to 5-11 in 2004 amid a huge salary-cap overrun. So they chose to tear down the roster and start anew. 
The Raiders, meanwhile, have a 79-87 record since returning to Oakland for the 1995 season, but they continue to follow a pattern 
of trying to patch with veterans rather than embarking on a true youth movement. 
Develop their own players: The 49ers are second in the league with 31 of their draft choices on the roster. But, aside f
rom Alex Smith, many of the kids haven't had a lot of opportunities to play. Titans coach Jeff Fisher uses as many as five rookies at a time on offense. 
This has led to expected results. Tennessee has a 2-5 record, and mistakes have played a significant role in several defeats. 
Still, that record is barely worse than the Raiders' and it's better than the 49ers'. The Titans' approach should pay dividends down the road. 
"What we try to do is be enthusiastic and encourage, and correct mistakes, and know that they're not making mistakes on purpose," 
Fisher said by telephone from Nashville. "You have to be real careful on Monday, because you have to keep the wins and the losses in perspective. 
"You can't let a young team just kind of sink in a loss, and have it take three or four days to get out of it. You have to put it in perspective 
real quickly as to, why did it happen and how can we have avoided it? (If we're) still improving, well, good, let's go on to the next one 
and not necessarily look at the record." 
Example: The Titans lost to Cincinnati when the Bengals threw on cornerback Pacman Jones, the first-round draft choice, down the stretch. 
Tennessee gambled by putting Jones in man-to-man coverage against Chad Johnson, and Johnson drew a pass-interference call, 
Fisher said, only because Carson Palmer's pass was overthrown. 
"(Jones) was stride for stride," Fisher said. "If the ball was thrown perfectly, Pacman would make a play on the ball, yet he's 
called for pass interference. Now, look past the (penalty) and find positives. Well, he's stride for stride with one of the best 
receivers in the league and he's in position to make the play. So that's kind of the approach that we take." 
Fisher, who once was the 49ers' defensive backfield coach, is an ideal coach for dealing with this situation. In fact, he's as good 
as any coach in the league at working under difficult circumstances, something he proved in the '90s when the Titans were, for 
several years, vagabonds while they took a few years to fully move their operation from Houston to Memphis and finally to Nashville. 
He prefers to call his team inexperienced rather than young. 
Whatever you call it, there have been some strange moments, such as when second-year tight end Ben Troupe, who started 
seven games as a rookie, caught a pass against Cincinnati while on the ground, got up, and just stood there. 
"He had a flashback to college and thought the play was over," Fisher said. 
Bengals linebacker Brian Simmons knocked the ball out of Troupe's hands. Fortunately for Troupe, he was near the sideline 
and the ball went out of bounds. 
"That's what we're dealing with," Fisher said. 
There are still a few familiar names on the roster, including quarterback Steve McNair and wide receiver Drew Bennett, the former 
UCLA quarterback from Orinda. Both of them missed Sunday's 20-10 loss to Arizona because of injuries, although McNair 
is expected to start against the Raiders. 
Jones, second-round pick Michael Roos, the right tackle, and third-round choice Brandon Jones, the league's leading 
rookie receiver, are starters, but Brandon Jones injured a knee against Arizona and his status for Sunday is not certain. 
Tight end Bo Scaife, a sixth-round choice, has been getting a lot of work as a blocker, replacing a fullback. Seventh-round 
corner Reynaldo Hill is working in the nickel package. Placekicker Rob Bironas is a first-year pro but technically not a rookie 
because he had been in three previous NFL training camps without making a team's roster. 
Fisher said Roos has done a "marvelous job," but Pacman Jones got off to a slow start because of a training-camp holdout. 
Yet another rookie, fourth-round pick Vincent Fuller, a safety, was the nickel back when the season began but has been out 
with an injury since the second game. 
The Titans also picked up a real find in fifth-year defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch, a 2001 first-round pick by Arizona. 
He was available as a minimum-salary free agent because of a history of knee injury, but he's healthy now, and he has 
made 71/2 sacks, second in the league. 
"He plays very, very hard," Fisher said. "He practices very, very hard. He's a really good example for our younger players." 
Choice list 
With 40 players on its roster whom it drafted, Tennessee is well above the NFL average, which is 25. The number of players drafted by each team who are on that team's 53-man roster, according to NFL
research as of Sunday's games: 
40: Tennessee 
31: 49ers 
30: Baltimore 
29: Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Indianapolis 
28: Green Bay, Pittsburgh, San Diego 
27: Seattle, Jacksonville 
26: St. Louis, New England, Philadelphia, N.Y. Jets, Chicago 
25: Raiders, N.Y. Giants, Kansas City, Carolina 
24: Buffalo, Detroit 
23: Atlanta, Houston 
22: Denver 
21: Minnesota, Dallas 
20: Arizona, Cleveland, New Orleans 
18: Miami 
16: Washington 
Trial and error 
The Titans are 2-5 as they prepare to host the Raiders on Sunday. Their personnel approach this season: 
-- Starting over after busting their salary cap and going 5-11 in 2004 
-- Playing as many as five rookies at a time on offense 
-- Starting their first-, second- and third-round picks 
-- Taking the bad with the good -- coach Jeff Fisher: "You can't let a young team just kind of sink in a loss. ... 
You have to put it in perspective real quickly as to, why did it happen and how can we have avoided it?" 
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