Tennessee Titans 2010 Season Preview and Position Breakdown

The 2009 season for the Tennessee Titans did not go as really anyone expected. Fans went in to the season with Super Bowl expectations, and through the first 6 weeks of the season, what we got out of it was nothing but sheer disappointment. No one saw it coming, regardless of whether you expected this team to win the Super Bowl, or hell, even make the playoffs, no one can say they thought the Tennessee Titans would be 0-6 to start the season.

However, as it turned out, the 2009 season was not a complete waste. The Titans got something out of it that probably no one in the organization expected, and that was the emergence of Vince Young as the teams franchise QB. He came out and proved his doubters wrong, going 8-2 in the final 10 games of the season, and helped Tennessee from turning in to a complete joke.

Most importantly of this, though, is he didn’t do that simply with just his legs like he did in 2006. He did it with a combination of his arm AND legs. He posted the highest QB rating of his career, had a positive TD-INT ratio of 10-6 as a starter, and had a 58% completion percentage, to go along with his 281 yards rushing on a 5.1 average with 2 touchdowns.

Past Vince Young’s emergence(it’s hard to believe this got overshadowed by something else going on in the franchise, but that was partly the case), was Chris Johnson becoming the undisputed best back in football, and running for 2,000 yards along with breaking the yards from scrimmage record once held by the future hall-of-famer Marshall Faulk.

These 2 things were able to help Titans fans push the 0-6 start in to the back of their heads and focus on the good things going on in the franchise, and gave us hope for the next season. Which brings us to the main point of this article: a preview of the Tennessee Titans 2010 season.

I’m going to go from position to position, giving my personal thoughts on the starters and the depth of those positions, and how I feel they will fare this season, and I will follow that with a win/loss prediction on the season. We’ll start off the position previews with:

Quarterback:

Starter: Vince Young

Depth: Kerry Collins, Chris Simms, Rusty Smith

Titans fans finally got what they’ve wanted to see since Vince Young’s breakdown in 2008, and that is him establishing himself as the starting QB, and improving on his accuracy and decision making. All the talk so far in camp is that Vince Young has done nothing but give 100% to becoming better, and has improved not only on the practice field, but in the film room as well, where he was previously lacking. Vince Young should have a good season this year, and I’m predicting about 58/59% completion percentage, 18-20 TDS, 7-8 INTs along with 500 yards rushing and 5 or 6 rushing touchdowns.

In terms of the depth at the position, Kerry Collins and Chris Simms bring veteran help to the table, and Rusty Smith was brought in as a project to hopefully mold in to the #2 QB to stay behind Vince Young. We won’t go in to the season with 4 QBs on the roster, and I doubt we’ll even have more than 2 active in game, however, I foresee Simms getting cut, Collins sticking around as the backup for another season, and keeping Smith on the practice squad to mold in to the future #2.

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