VY getting mauled on the Titans board

[TEXANRED]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

Ahhh 8-8 not enough anymore? Last season it was all the rage. And please if you consider this a 'classless' post you should drop half of yours in the rival area in a Classless Texans fan thread. There have been a lot worst things said on here then making light of a fan base revealing in a .500 season and not making the playoffs.

You gotta admit that it is a little funny that if a team goes 8-8 that it is a given that you will sell out.

Wait. Was it not the Titan fan base that trotted out VY as some sort of saviour cus he took the Titans to an 8-8 season his rookie year?

What ever happen to that Vince Young guy anyhow?

[DiehardChris]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

I seem to have passed one that Texans fans failed. If your team is struggling to get two wins where is the logic in the fan base shelling out a ton of money to sell the stadium out?

You wouldn't understand. You didn't live and die with a team for several decades until they were ripped away from you. You were handed a team on a silver platter, and got a super bowl appearance almost right away.

[mexican_texan]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

I seem to have passed one that Texans fans failed. If your team is struggling to get two wins where is the logic in the fan base shelling out a ton of money to sell the stadium out?

Football is huge in Texas. We have more high school football fans than the state of Tennessee has football fans period.

[Texan_Bill]

Originally Posted by ChildressTitanMan

Back on topic....................

Vince Gump is a turd

Right on Childress!!!

[ATX]

Houston vs Nashville?

With Houston having 4 million plus in the area, plus some of the largest companies in the country, there shouldn't be any reason for lack of sellouts.

[mexican_texan]

It's probably closer to 7 million.

[ATX]

Originally Posted by mexican_texan

It's probably closer to 7 million.

Which is probably more than the whole state of Tennessee, hence the reason they had to be called the Tennessee Titans and not the Nashville Titans.

[Blazing Arrow]

Originally Posted by mexican_texan

Football is huge in Texas. We have more high school football fans than the state of Tennessee has football fans period.

I live in CA and my highschool was the ESPN National Champions for highschool my senior year.

[Blazing Arrow]

Originally Posted by TEXANRED

Wait. Was it not the Titan fan base that trotted out VY as some sort of saviour cus he took the Titans to an 8-8 season his rookie year?

What ever happen to that Vince Young guy anyhow?

The Tennessee Oilers moved when they were 2-14 and had just promoted a coach at mid season they were hardly a power house much less a contender. We did not get the benefit of a supplementary draft like the Texans did.

[mexican_texan]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

I live in CA and my highschool was the ESPN National Champions for highschool my senior year.

Well good for you. California's high school football scene doesn't compare to Virginia or Texas though.

[Blazing Arrow]

Originally Posted by mexican_texan

Well good for you. California's high school football scene doesn't compare to Virginia or Texas though.

Please! The coach of the team has been offered coordinator positions in the NFL for many seasons. He currently hold the record in the country for most consecutive wins ... guess who's record he beat?

Currently MJD, Toomer, and DJ Williams are playing in the NFL all products of that system.

While CA has a lot of high schools there are several that are considered the tops amount the nation in teams.

[TEXANRED]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

The Tennessee Oilers moved when they were 2-14 and had just promoted a coach at mid season they were hardly a power house much less a contender. We did not get the benefit of a supplementary draft like the Texans did.

What are you talking about? The Titans went to the superbowl in 2000 and VY was a rookie in 2006.

Are you over medicating your glaucoma?

[J-Russ]

I wonder if they still have that "I want to rescue Vince from Tennessee!!!" thread over on the orangeblood forum.

That thread was pretty funny.

[Blazing Arrow]

Originally Posted by TEXANRED

What are you talking about? The Titans went to the superbowl in 2000 and VY was a rookie in 2006.

I was talking about how we started as the 'Titans" ... you know stealing a team and all

The Titans were in rebuild and were nowhere near a Super Bowl caliber team when they moved. If you were to read some of the comments it seems like we had a playoff team at the bring of the Super Bowl.

Are you over medicating your glaucoma?

Clever

[gwallaia]

Originally Posted by mexican_texan

Well good for you. California's high school football scene doesn't compare to Virginia or Texas though.

I believe California, Texas and Florida consistently lead the nation in the number of high school players that go on and play in college.

As far as fan interest and tradition. I have no idea, I only know the State of Texas.

[TEXANRED]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

Clever

Thanks. I try.

[Texan_Bill]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

The Tennessee Oilers moved when they were 2-14 and had just promoted a coach at mid season they were hardly a power house much less a contender. We did not get the benefit of a supplementary draft like the Texans did.

No.. You benefited from having the fact that Steve McNair had already been drafted. Eddie George had been drafted. Frank Wychek was there, and many of the pieces of a once dominating O-line were still in place. The defense wasn't really that bad. Blaine Bishop anyone? Barron Wortham, Gary Walker, Darrell Lewis. BTW, special teams weren't all that bad either, Al Del Greco, Reggie Roby and Mel Gray. Tennessee had just drafted Derrick Mason (R) that off-season.

BTW, the expansion draft for the Texans was different than other expansion drafts in that the Texans were required to spend almost 40% (or about $28 million) of their cap space -or-required to draft 30 guys in the draft alone.

Apples to apples? Hardly.

Next?

[Mailman]

Originally Posted by Texan_Bill

No.. You benefited from having the fact that Steve McNair had already been drafted. Eddie George had been drafted. Frank Wychek was there, and many of the pieces of a once dominating O-line were still in place. The defense wasn't really that bad. Blaine Bishop anyone? Barron Wortham, Gary Walker, Darrell Lewis. BTW, special teams weren't all that bad either, Al Del Greco, Reggie Roby and Mel Gray. Tennessee had just drafted Derrick Mason (R) that off-season.

BTW, the expansion draft for the Texans was different than other expansion drafts in that the Texans were required to spend almost 40% (or about $28 million) of their cap space -or-required to draft 30 guys in the draft alone.

Apples to apples? Hardly.

Next?

You beat me to it. How can a self-identified Titans fan not remember these players? Good grief, they were given a team with a Hall-of-Fame offensive lineman in Bruce Matthews and Pro-Bowlers in Brad Hopkins and Mark Stepnoski, along with a young stud RB and a third-year QB who was drafted third overall.

Yeah, that 8-8 team they stole really had it rough.

[Blazing Arrow]

Originally Posted by Mailman

You beat me to it. How can a self-identified Titans fan not remember these players? Good grief, they were given a team with a Hall-of-Fame offensive lineman in Bruce Matthews and Pro-Bowlers in Brad Hopkins and Mark Stepnoski, along with a young stud RB and a third-year QB who was drafted third overall just three years previous.

Yeah, that 8-8 team they stole really had it rough.

So the two years in TN under the Oiler name was still an Oiler team? Houstonians had a strange way of showing it not going to the last games in the Dome. When the team moved it was coming off of a 2-14 season and looked in collapse. The reason they were able to draft McNair and George was the horrible record the seasons leading up to it. While a lot of players were on that team several more came after the movie. Mason Bill? Really you are talking up a guy who had 8 Rec and 89 Yrds our Super Bowl season. What would we have done without him?

[Mailman]

Originally Posted by Blazing Arrow

So the two years in TN under the Oiler name was still an Oiler team? Houstonians had a strange way of showing it not going to the last games in the Dome. When the team moved it was coming off of a 2-14 season and looked in collapse. The reason they were able to draft McNair and George was the horrible record the seasons leading up to it. While a lot of players were on that team several more came after the movie. Mason Bill? Really you are talking up a guy who had 8 Rec and 89 Yrds our Super Bowl season. What would we have done without him?

You're not very good at this, are you? The Oilers were 7-9 and 8-8 before they made the move to Tennessee. The 2-14 season was in '94, Pardee's last year as head coach.