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The Tennessee Titans need to start seeing more of the action like what's in the picture here from their secondary. Particularly from the guy in the Titans uniform. Last season, Tennessee reeled off an impressive string of 10 straight victories to start the season. In that span, they established themselves as one of the top defensive units in the league, averaging 299.3 total yards per game, and holding opposing quarterbacks to just ...

Two things we can be sure of after watching the Bears-Steelers game. Coach Tomlin knows his team, and Troy Polamalu really is that damned important to the Steelers defense. All week long, Coach Tomlin made sure that the Steelers saw game film of not only last week's performance by Jay Cutler against the Packers, but last year's performance by Jay Cutler against the Steelers in Denver. He knew how dangerous Cutler can be when he ...

No one expected to see 537 yards and 48 points in the Titans-Texans game. Let alone the first half. Right off the bat, though, these teams served notice that this was going to be a barnburner. With big play after big play, the Titans and Oilers...er, excuse me, the Texans, came out to show that they were legitimate contenders for the AFC South crown. It all started with a draw play that ...

Well, folks, week one of the NFL season is in the books. The defending Champion Pittsburgh Steelers two-stepped towards both defending their title and avenging a silly loss to the Tennessee Titans last year; Monday Night Football celebrated its 40th year on the air with a rare double feature; and overall the competition across the board indicated that the league's push towards parity is being achieved. While it's only the first week of a very, very ...

The play pictured here turned the tide. Leodis McKelvin took a Patriots kickoff two yards deep in the end zone. The Bills were ahead 24-16 with just over two minutes remaining. All he had to do was take a knee. Inexplicably, he decided to return the kick, and a few ticks of the clock later, he put the rock on the ground at his own 31 yard line, giving Tom Brady and the New England Patriots a ...

Don't let the picture fool you; right now, Jay Cutler has very little to smile about. Few could forget the controversy that surrounded Cutler this offseason. Petulant over the fact that he was dangled as trade bait by the Denver Broncos, he stomped his feet, held his breath, and otherwise made a complete twit of himself until Denver got fed up and traded him to the Chicago Bears. Apparently Lovie Smith didn't ...

With all the hubbub surrounding the departure of Pro Bowl defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth to the Washington Redskins, I thought it might be fun to follow his performance this year, just to see what we might be missing here in good ol' Nashville, Tenn. From the look on his face above, I'd say we dodged a bullet. I truly didn't watch football much at all in the pre-season; I don't put much stock in ...

Nashville, Tenn—13-10 should now become a score the Titans need to avoid, at least against AFC North teams. 13-10 was the last score the Titans saw before being unceremoniously bumped from the playoffs by the Baltimore Ravens after the 2008 season. 13-10 is the score that saw the Titans upended in overtime by the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL season opener last Thursday night.  In fact, in their last five losses, the number ...

Someone get LenDale a towel. I think he might want to hide his head under one on his way out of Pittsburgh. On a night when Troy Polamalu went down to a knee injury, Wille Parker and the rest of the Steelers running back corps couldn't seem to get the ball rolling, and Hines Ward did something he rarely ever does—fumbled in a big play situation—Ben Roethlisberger stood firm in the backfield, took a ...

I'll say this much: Based on their last two meetings, the NFL competition committee might consider ensuring that these two teams meet every year for the foreseeable future. For any fan of football, this was a game that had it all: run-stopping defensive fronts, otherworldly defensive backfields, big names making big plays—all in all, a hard-fought game that took an extra period to decide. Hines Ward beats Michael Griffin by half a ...