Two years ago, it appeared the future of football in Tennessee would be Vince Young on offense, and Albert Haynesworth on defense. Mulligan, please! The Titans have done a great job of assembling talent around these players--particularly on the offensive line and at running back, but they'll head into 2009 with question marks at two positions they felt strongly about back in 2007. How the replacements respond to the stresses of a starting job in the NFL will determine how this team does.
I'm not as much referencing QB Kerry Collins as I am about his successor, whoever that may be. The Titans are once again weakened at the QB position, and Collins will attempt to keep the seat warm for either reclamation project Patrick Ramsey, Young, or a future draft pick.
The Titans chose to totally overall their receiving corps this offseason, thus improving the environment for quarterbacks in Tennessee over the next few years. They, however, enter 2009 without the defensive identity that defined them over their last two years of playoff football. NFL Top 10 ignores that for now, and looks at the best players on the Tennessee Titans.
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