Tennessee Titans: The Rise Back To Greatness

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Long before the wide receiver divas, the police arrests, and terrible attitudes surrounding the organization, the Tennessee Titans used to be one of the best and toughest teams in the NFL.  We seem to forget the glory years.  They were like gladiator warriors on the grid iron.  After hearing about the Eddie George exclusive coming on the Showtime about life after football and rehashing some of the great memories from those late 90's and early 2000's teams, my brain has been playing a constant highlight reel of those glory years. When asked what those teams were like, George responded "We were meat-eaters.  We gnawed on the bone.  We were Titans".

Those words struck me like a strong bolt of lightning on a warm Summer's eve.  I thirst for those years to be back in Nashville.  I truly remember those teams.  Eddie George and Steve McNair may have made up the toughest running back and quarterback tandem to ever graze and NFL field.  Those teams went to war for their teammates, coaches, and for the city of Nashville.  They represented the city like no other athletes had done before, and still haven't to this day. In order for those players to come off the field, they would have had to have a limb torn off. Not even a cracked sternum could keep them from playing.  Frank Wycheck suffered so many concussions, I wouldn't be shocked if his brain looked like yesterday morning oatmeal.  That didn't matter to them, though, they had passion.  They wanted to win and that's all they wanted. Anything less was like a shot to the throat.

When I look at the team we have in Nashville now compared to those teams, I feel disgusted.  Winning football games in this league takes passion and is a representation of a culture that is created within a locker room among a group of grown men.  A group that would literally die on the football field for their team.  Later, George said that had he died on the field against the Baltimore Ravens in those AFC showdowns, he wouldn't regret it.  That kind of passion is missing from the Titans locker room today.

You have talent? So what? Talent without production is called potential. Winning is all that matters.  Kendall Wright, Jurrell Casey, Jason McCourty, Jake Locker, do you have that same burning fire inside of you that those players had? Are you willing to go to war for your teammates? If not, then the culture of this locker room will never change.  We need someone to step up and say "losing is no longer an option". We need that, and we need it soon.  Two toned blue has been too irrelevant for too many years.  It's time to rise back to the top, because we, as fans, have been there.  We know what it feels like.  We're tired of losing.

Trey Frisbey
Boy Meets Sports
1/31/2014
Twitter: @boymeetsports