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The battle for supremacy in football always has and always will start up front in the trenches. Ask any football man worth his salt and he’ll let you know, any team built successfully will always have a good line play. Its simple, if you get great play from your lines, you will have a shot to win and dominate in the NFL. This week let’s look at the Titans defensive line and what they must do to improve upon their subpar performance of a year ago

Although the Titans are relatively young on the D-line with RDE Jason Jones being the old man of the group who just played his 4th season. LDE is manned by Derrick Morgan heading into his 3rd year, the tackle spots have Jurrell Casey who just finished his rookie year and Sen’Derrick Marks who just finished his 3rd year. Backing them up are Dave Ball, Karl Klug, William Hayes, and Shaun Smith.

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I’ve finally gotten around to doing my mock draft. You’ve all seen Chase Maher’s, now here’s mine. I’ve also chosen to avoid trades because they just make a mess of a mock draft. I do indicate which teams I believe will/could do a trade. After the combine, I hope to have a multiple round mock draft up so keep your eyes open for it! I also may update this one after the Senior Bowl. Thanks to WalterFootball.com and DCProSportsReport.com for featuring us in their draft links.

Here we go:

1. Indianapolis Colts
QB Andrew Luck
Stanford

This one has turned into a given. Luck will be a Colt, unfortunately. The Colts are rebuilding and have a chance to take an elite franchise QB. They’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind to pass on this one.

2. St. Louis Rams
WR Justin Blackmon
Oklahoma State

The Rams have a few needs and WR is one of the bigger ones. They have Brandon Lloyd, who is a pretty good receiver, but they need someone to pair with Bradford like the Bengals did with A.J. Green and Andy Dalton. He’s a tremendous upgrade to a receiving corps that lacks playmakers.

Other possible picks: OT Matt Kalil- USC, *trade back

3. Minnesota Vikings
OT Matt Kalil
USC

The Vikings have a young QB that they just handed the franchise over to. He’s got a lot of maturing to do and the best way to help him is to keep the pressure off him. Kalil is the top lineman in the draft. The Vikings allowed 49 sacks this last season. Kalil can do a lot do bring that number down.

Other possible picks: WR Justin Blackmon

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After interviewing for multiple head coaching positions, Jerry Gray has announced that he will still be the Titans defensive coordinator in 2012.

Via NFL.com:

“I am going to be the defensive coordinator for the Titans and I am glad to be working for the Titans,” Gray told the newspaper. “That’s what I’m going to be doing.”

It’s a fortunate thing for the Titans to keep him. There wasn’t any real belief that he’d be chosen as a head coach of any of the teams that he interviewed for but it still gives you a little scare. The Titans have just begun to see his defensive scheming start to unroll and it would be a bit of a set back to lose the coach who set it all in motion.

It’s good to hear he’ll be sticking around.

Adams laughs as a Titans fan requests he spend money on the team this year. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-US PRESSWIRE

As the off-season approacheth, our eyes get wider and wider with the prospect of bringing in potential free agents and draftees to continue to build on our successes. Teams are always looking for that one guy to be the complementary, finishing piece of the puzzle. A lot of us here at Titan Sized, and other sites around the league, are currently projecting/hypothesizing/outright-delusionally-dreaming of who we could potentially bring into the fold at LP Field. With that in mind, I will take an excitingly unrealistic look at who the Titans could theoretically sign in the off-season. Assuming our owner was some guy named Cuban. Or Snyder. Or Jones. Pretty much anyone but Adams.

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Unbelievably Exciting Free Agent That We Won’t Sign #1:       Mario Williams

Williams is an absolute wrecking ball of the highest caliber. He’s big, strong, fast, and routinely punishes guys at the line of scrimmage. From the looks of last season, he would also make a heck of a linebacker. However, I think Williams enjoyed being arguably the best Defensive Lineman in the league, as opposed to just a very good Linebacker, and wouldn’t be surprised if he decided to see if any 4-3 teams come calling via free agency. Also, Houston has that other premier DE to worry about, and I doubt J.J. Watt will be playing for his rookie salary for more than another year or two. My feeling is that Williams actually will test the market, but that we won’t even come close to offering enough to get him.

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This Titans off season is as important as any other in franchise history. The  new staff will have a chance to evaluate the personnel hands-on, rather than relying on tape like they were during the lockout. Many of us fans like to speculate and assume what direction we will be going in free agency and the NFL Draft. Such speculations are reasonable, whereas others are so left field that their football knowledge  should be seriously questioned. It is one thing to watch the game, but studying and breaking down film allows for a much more credible opinion.

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Free Agency starts in two months and with $30 million in cap room and some big names probably departing for next season, this stage of the offseason could be huge for the Titans. Let’s just hope Webster won’t be afraid of bringing some big names and Bud won’t refuse to spend big money in that case.So let’s take a look to some big names the Titans could use for next season.

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Courtney Upshaw has been pretty impressive thus far Courtesy: TheJetsBlog.com

There’s not a lot going on in terms of Titans news, or any other news really, as most teams are at the Senior Bowl observing prospects and trying to put their own grades on them.

Here’s a little info on a couple of guys who have stood out so far during practices:

Courtney Upshaw is blowing up practices. He’s pushing himself up draft boards while knocking down offensive tackles. Upshaw has been playing a lot of defensive end during Senior Bowl practices, a position he’s familiar with. The Tide often moved him back and forth in his positioning on the field, from being a linebacker to playing on the line at defensive end. I couldn’t find the link today, but on Tuesday I know he knocked at least one, if not more, offensive tackles on their butts just using his pure force. At 6’1″ and 273 pounds, it’d be easy for Upshaw to be a starting DE in the NFL. He also plays well into Gray’s scheme, as he like drop DE’s into coverage every now and then. It’s very likely he’ll be long gone by the time the Titans go to pick at #20. Continue reading this post »

Courtesy: SeniorBowl.com

Oh boy! We’re that much closer to the draft. This is one of the most important times for teams to get to know players coming into the draft and how they preform. Obviously not all the big names are here, as it’s only for seniors and some decline the invite, whether it is due to injury or for some other reason. I’ve gone through the lists and highlighted some of the bigger names attending. The names are linked to little bios that variate in their amount of depth, depending on how well know the player is. Thanks to SeniorBowl.com for the nice and tidy rosters and links! Continue reading this post »

Not exactly Titans-related news, but we gotta give you guys something to look at during the slowest football week of the year.

Click the link to peep the vid. 

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For those of you who missed it, Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean had a great article published the other day. You can check it out here. In it, he goes on to talk about our “new” GM Ruston Webster, whom we at Titan Sized profiled for you last week (Catch it here if you missed it). In reading it, you get the sense that Webster is very highly regarded within the football community. He also is presented as having a very ego-free, team-oriented approach to his work; sort of the anti-Polian if you will. Given the class and air of respect and positivity that Munchak and his crew have infused into the franchise, I think Webster will be a very nice fit. Some choice excerpts:

“Ruston has plenty of capacity. He is a very good talent evaluator, very organized, a hard worker, and he works well with people. If anyone is more prepared for that job, I don’t know who it is.” – Falcons President Rich McKay

“He is a great consensus-builder. He wants to know what everyone thinks and feels, knowing he is going to make the best decision for the team. And he doesn’t care who gets the credit. He’s always been that way.” – Bears GM Jerry Angelo

“He likes guys that are tough, and… [he] wants guys that are smart. If he’s going to put a player on the board and stand behind him, he would have those two attributes. He doesn’t like lazy, and he won’t make excuses for guys.” – Rich McKay

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