Quick thoughts - Titans

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by 1965southpaw

The valid point is that two things can and are true simultaneously. You can hold players accountable for their successes and failures AND you can hold coaches accountable for their successes and failures. The key word is "And".

Our players are held to account by their inclusion on the team, by the size of their contracts, and by their playing time. But you cannot say a team that has sufficient talent to play like they keep playing in the first half of these games is losing due to a talent deficit. They have sufficient talent to compete. They are dealing with a coaching and leadership deficit. Chud, Monachino, And Pagano are not putting their talent in the best position to succeed AND they can and should be held to account for this just as they should be credited for getting the team off to a fast start. If you can't see that this leadership team is failing to lead this team I don't think there are any other points that can be made.

Originally Posted by rcubed

Why is it we can be leading in 5 of 6 games at the half and continue to have these melts downs ending in us being 2-4? The talent is there for us to play well enough in the first half but somehow changes in the second half? Its true we have roster weakness but you cant blame everything on that.

Other coaching staff changes can turn around terrible teams in an offseason with out much roster turn over - See harbaugh in SF, see mcvay with the rams.

Coaching matters Adjustments matters. Attitude matters. Accountability matters.

Doesn't this team lead the league in 3 and outs? Has some of that been playcalling? Definitely, there have been some far too predictable series from this team in the second half of games. However, a lot of it has been execution of the players. Key drops on crucial third down plays. Inability to open running lanes. Overthrows. Inability to execute the counters clearly called. That last one was a huge factor in last night's game. The playcall mix was appropriate in the second half, and the play designs were clearly blitz beaters, things like screens, short passes to the flat and over the middle, checkdowns built into nearly every play. Brissett just struggled to execute all of it in the second half. That's been a theme for him as well, and as offense dependent as this team appears to be, it's little surprise that when he performs well, the team performs well, and when he performs poorly, so does the team. Not all of it is on Brissett, but if you want to know why the halftime leads turn into losses, look to the performance of the offense, and if the coaching staff is making the right calls to counter the opponent's strategy, you can't exactly blame them for the players' inability to execute it.