Seahawks vs Titans preview: 5 questions about Tennessee
By Lee Vowell
Hopes and worries for the Titans
12th Man Rising: What are a few hopes you have for the Titans heading into week two against the Seahawks and why Tennessee can win?
Geoffrey Knox: Well, this team has to be more dominant in the trenches. Both the offensive line and defensive line have to be better. In all honesty, I didn’t see much from either unit, and there’s no logical reason for what they can’t play better.
Derrick Henry couldn’t get rolling and that was due to ineffective run blocking. Ryan Tannehill had a lot of grass stains on his jersey. That was due to the line being ineffective in pass protection.
This team also spent a ton of coin in an attempt to improve a pass rush and secondary. Isaiah Simmons snagged an interception in Week 1, but if this team wants to become a legitimate Super Bowl contender, they’ll need to be able to prove that they can consistently get to the quarterback.
Titan-sized worries
12th Man Rising: What are some of your biggest worries going against the Seahawks?
Geoffrey Knox: The biggest worry comes from the fact that the Hawks don’t have to do anything in terms of traveling, other than having their players and coaches wake up and drive to the stadium.
Tennessee is flying across the country from Nashville, Tennessee to the Pacific Northwest. Traveling can be exhausting when there’s no football game to play. Now imagine doing so following a game that was both mentally and physically exhausting and having to make so many improvements before facing a potential division winner from another conference.
This is another of those things that doesn’t get discussed that often, but that’s a difficult component to an NFL grind. To make long stories short, I’ll put things this way.
It’s hard to believe that six days is enough time to correct everything that we saw go wrong with Tennessee in Week 1.
The Seahawks appear to be in midseason form already. The Titans on the other hand look like a team where so many of their important pieces have never played together, and, truth be told, that’s because so many of the team’s key pieces are unfamiliar with one another.