McGwire Comes Clean

It took a while but Mark McGwire finally came clean about steroids. After years of denial and avoiding the questions he admitted to using them for about 10 years during his career. Then he ruined it! Ruined is admission!

McGwire claimed he “only” took steroids to be healthy and feel better and not for strength. Oh, and he went on to say they didn’t make him a better hitter. So, he was hitting 580 foot homers before he took steroids? Oh, and that’s why he was choked up nearly in tears? Because he felt guilty about feeling better? Please!!! Who does he think he’s kidding? The only person he’s fooling is himself or the diehard Cardinal fan who’s prepared to believe anything their beloved slugger says.

Mark McGwire cheated, period. And he knows it…

Number One For A Day

Congratulations to Bruce Pearl and his Tennessee Volunteers for an absolutely amazing day and week in Knoxville. Down to just 6 scholarship players the Vols routed UNC-Charlotte then
stunned top ranked Kansas Sunday in Knoxville.

Doing the right thing isn’t always the easiest thing to do, but Pearl and Tennessee appear well on their way. Pearl dismissed Tyler Smith from the team for his role in the arrest of four U-T basketball players on drug and gun charges. Cameron Tatum, Brian Williams and Melvin Goins remain suspended and likely will not return this season if it all.

Sometimes doing the right thing can also pay off. I didn’t appear possible but this team
actually looks better now. They had walk-ons play 45 minutes against Kansas! Not against
Lenoir-Rhyne or Neverheardofyou State, Kansas! They played 45 hard, inspired minutes and
the 6 scholarship players played with a renewed passion and a chemistry we haven’t seen
in 2 years.

Let this be a lesson to everyone, do the right thing, the results just may surprise you!!!

CJ2K... Johnson Crosses Into History

Disappointing, depressing, amazing… Call it want you want, you can’t call the Titans season boring. From 0-6 to 8-8 was an impressive turnaround, but watching Chris Johnson go for 2,000 was special.

Only 5 have done it before him and in a pass happy age we may not see it again for a long, long time. So, take a few days and appreciate what you saw and the effort he gave whether the Titans were winning, losing, in the hunt or out of it. Chris Johnson is a football player and now he’s the face of the franchise.

The only thing missing from Pro Bowl? Common sense!

Congratulations to the Titans phenom Chris Johnson on his second selection to the AFC’s Pro Bowl roster in 2 years. With a league leading 1,872 yards he is certainly worthy and is arguably the best ball carrier in the league today.

The Titans are (7-8) thru 15 games, that’s not the kind of record that sends a lot of players to the game and it didn’t for the Titans. C-J was their only selection. OK, let’s use our heads.

The Titans have the NFL’s leading rusher by over 500 yards and they’ve allowed the second fewest sacks in the NFL, that tells me the offensive line is getting it done. Mike Roos, Eugene Amano, Kevin Mawae, Jake Scott and David Stewart all deserve some applause as well and at least one of them a free trip to Miami with C-J.

Oh, let’s not forget fullback Ahmard Hall who paves the way play after play. Baltimore’s LeRon McClain is going instead, he’s a great player and carries the ball more, it’s that simple. Hall actually could get his due next year, his reputation could be stronger with a 2,000 yard rusher to his credit.

Not everyone can go, I get it, but I think the voters didn’t see the forest thru the trees.

Titans Simply Won't Die

Jeff Fisher deserves a lot of second guessing this season. He took a team that won 13 games last year and started 0-6. He’d never admit it, but he had a hand it. He’s also had a hand in the turnaround.

The head coach catches a lot of flack for his style, but it is absolutely what allowed them to turn it around. Think about it, they were 0-6 and had just lost 59-0 in arguably the worst effort in team history (no, thats not overly dramatic).

Since the buy week, they are a different team. Number one, they got healthy (the return of Finnegan, Fuller and Harper was HUGE). Number two, Vince Young entered the line-up and electrified the offense. Number three, Chris Johnson has rushed for 100 yards in every game since then. Number four, the head coach kept them all moving in the same direction.

If there was ever a time for a team to fracture and fall completely apart, this was it, but they didn’t and that’s coaching.

Today was another perfect example of it. The Titans watched a 24-6 lead disappear, but no one panicked, everyone kept playing and they won it.

It would be easy to look at this season and just say “what if”, because one more win would change anything. Maybe we need to appreciate it for what it is and that’s an amazing turnaround from a team that’s still in playoff contention at (7-7) with only 2 games to go.

Top 25 & Beyond

For the first time in my life I’m a voter in the A-P Top 25 Basketball Poll and let me just say it is WAY harder than I thought. I can always remember looking at that poll growing up and picking out all of the insane injustices that were there. Today though I have a new understanding.

First off their should be NO POLL until at least December 1st. It’s practically impossible to vote on teams that haven’t played or you haven’t even seen a highlight of.

Second, the top 15 isn’t so difficult. The best of the best tend to stand out, the rest that’s another story. I was agonizing over 16 thru 25 Sunday and could have filled out those 10 teams with at least 20 different names. In the end I just tried to go with my guy and ask myself who would beat who.

I have 2 goals, be as fair as possible and not to get called out by that guy on cbssportsline.com!!!

2,000 In Sight For C-J

I grew up in Chicago watching Walter Payton and to me the NFL starts and ends with number 34. He is the greatest football player I’ve ever watched, end of discussion. That’s what makes what I’m thinking so amazing, Chris Johnson could be the most electric back I’ve ever seen and is probably the best in the NFL.

I was extremely critical of Johnson the first month of the season. Even though he was producing big plays, yards and touchdowns I thought he was going for the “homerun” every time and in the process dancing around and turning in way too many negative plays.

The coaching staff will never admit it, but he was, and now he’s not. The negative plays are gone and I can’t find fault in anything he does with the football. He gets the tough yards, the big yards and the homerun!

Chris Johnson has over 1,500 yards after 12 games. Jeff Fisher said today only 2 other running backs have ever done that. I haven’t done the research at this point, but I won’t dispute him. 2,000 yards is certainly in sight. 200 yard games don’t happen often in this league, but with the Rams coming to town I keep feeling like I EXPECT C-J to go for 200 Sunday and that is ridiculous.

He has a long way to go to be the “best ever” in my eyes, but he certainly isn’t off to a bad start.

Playoff Time For Titans?

No the Titans haven’t earned a playoff spot. Nope, they’ve still got a long way to go. But, boy it’s fun to be able to consider it again!

After that unbelievably horrific 0-6 start we deemed the season over! We were wrong. They probably have to win out to have a chance, but they’re already halfway there and I think if they upset the Colts Sunday the Titans will win out, finish 10-6 and make the playoffs.

So, that basically makes Sunday an all or nothing game. The chips are on the table and the Titans are certainly “all in”!!!

Titans Stun Texans!!!

Wow! Fantastic game in Houston Monday night and an unbelievable turnaround for the Tennessee Titans. From 0-6 to 4-6 after stunning the Texans 20-17 in what they were calling the biggest game in Texans history.

Vince Young improved to 4-0 as the Titans starter and turned in another solid performance. He barely topped 100 yards thru the air, but ran for over 70 yards and converted several HUGE third down situations.

Chirs Johnson is playing at a ridiculouis level. He carred 29 times for 151 yards including a bigtime run on 1st and 15 on the Titans game winning drive.

I could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it up with this, they’re finding ways to win and I now find it very hard to bet against them. Could a playoff run actually be possible?

Owner Gone Wild!

Well, the Tennessee Titans are back. Sunday they made it 3 in a row with a convincing 41-17 rout of the Buffalo Bills. The players were happy, the crowd was happy and the owner was happy… Maybe a little too happy!

Titans owner Bud Adams made his way to the sideline with about two minutes to play and played up to the crowd. He smiled, waved, even danced and then took it to a whole new level. Let me say, I was 10 feet away and am not making this up. Adams flashed a “hook’em horns” to the Titans fans then turned to the Bills sideline and gave them the “number one” salute… With the wrong finger…. On both hands… Oh, and it happened more than once.

Was he enjoying a win? Yes. Was he playing to the crowd? Yes. Did he go too far? Yeah… N

No, I’m not appalled, but he’s the owner of an NFL franchise and while I appreciate the passion and the personality maybe he could come up with a more “constructive” way to send his message. Anyway, we’ll found out how inappropriate it was when Commissioner Roger Goodell finds out, he by the way was at the game and was in Adams box!

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