The Titans don't think McCluster

The Tennessee Titans "We never intended for Dexter to be a major pass-protector," Croom said. "He's been a very willing guy. We work on his technique so when the situations come up that he may have to pass protect he'll be OK in that. He will definitely use the cut block technique, which we cannot use on ourselves in practice. But he will use it in games, so that will help him. Dexter will be in situations where he will have the advantage a great number of the times." Dexter McCluster didn't take any big shots that I saw during the Tennessee Titans practice against the Atlanta Falcons in Georgia on Monday. But in padded practices through the first 10 days of camp, he's gotten knocked off his feet plenty of times. Listed at 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds, McCluster needs to be in space to use his quickness against a defense. Carries and catches in more traffic will go to Bishop Sankey and Shonn Greene. Even so, watching him work has lead a lot of us to wonder how he will survive NFL hits even if he's only taking a handful of the kind of shots we've seen in practices. Ken Whisenhunt's said it's not a concern. Running back coach Sylvester Croom echoed that recently and explained further. "I'm not concerned about that at all because what he'll do is, the thing he and I have talked about, is make sure he stays low enough where they don't target his core," Croom says. "When we get to running where it gets low, he'll make them come down and play on his level." Upon having that conversation, I saw snapshots in my head of times I saw McCluster take big shots in camp, and sure enough he's been upright. In a practice setting, players are urged to stay on their feet and keep others up too. In a game, McCluster will typically be heading down when big contact can arrive. He's also not going to be asked to get in the way of giant pass-rushers very often. Note: Note: He was drafted by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Dexter McCluster is a wide receiver for the Titans of the National Football League.

The Zach Mettenberger Punched by Alabama Fan

Tennessee Titans Alabama fans continue to make a name for themselves in the world of sports. Tennessee Titans Alabama Harvey Updyke set the bar high several years ago when he poisoned the trees at Auburn’s beloved Toomer’s Corner. Tennessee Titans Alabama It’s going to take something that I don’t want to imagine to top that, but it hasn’t stopped people from trying. Recently, a construction worker hung an Alabama Crimson Tide flag on Kyle Field at Texas A&M University, for which he was fired. He also made several jokes via social media about doing faulty welding at the stadium, which, you know, is what most people in his shoes would do to a rival school. Tennessee Titans 6th round draft pick, Zach Mettenberger, was out Saturday night when a man yelled “Roll Tide” at him. The former LSU Tiger responded with “Good luck with that.” And for that, Roll Tide’s buddy sucker punched him square in the face. Because you know Mettenberger clearly took the situation too far. His blatant disregard for this fan’s presence obviously warranted an unforeseen knuckle sandwich. I think any reasonable Alabama fan is probably giving this man the slow clap today for standing up to such devious blasphemy. All sarcasm aside, Mettenberger handled the situation as well as one could imagine. Dealing with this type of Alabama fan is like dealing with a caged grizzly bear while you are in the cage with said grizzly bear. What could be brushed off as trash talk by most other fanbases becomes the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. I see them all the time and they are unstable individuals. I can confidently say that because I, myself, am a third generation Alabama fan. Don’t worry guys, when they say “Roll Tide” to me, I say it back. But, if they read Titan Sized and recognize my face, I might be in trouble. If they ask me what I think about naming a child ‘Crymson Tyde,’ I’ll definitely be in trouble. That’s stupid. I will undoubtedly get Mettenberger’ed. Alas, I’ll just cross that bridge when I get to it. The owner of the bar was quick to defend Mettenberger citing that he was completely innocent, didn’t start any trouble, and was the victim of a targeted attack. That’s good in one way it doesn’t seem to indicate any sort of ‘character issues’ with Mettenberger. It appears as though he was just out, trying to have a good time, and encountered a raging idiot. It’s bad in another way and I don’t want to get on a moral soapbox but it means that our athletes aren’t safe in public. This isn’t a knock on Zach Mettenberger’s choices, it’s a knock on our own society and the culture of drunken tough guys. It’s a shame that a guy can’t go out and have a drink or two without worrying about whether or not some loose cannon is going to walk up and punch him for no reason. Besides, quarterbacks aren’t known as tough guys. So, why on Earth does that make them a target? I can remotely understand the logic of trying to fight a professional wrestler or a MMA fighter. Tennessee Titans Alabama They are supposed to be the baddest men on the planet! And, you have to prove that you are on their level! At least that’s what your irrational, ridiculous, drunken machismo is telling you. But a quarterback in the NFL? Tennessee Titans Alabama Just calm your fandom down. He’s just a dude and a dude whose jersey you will probably be wearing in 2 or 3 years at that. Let’s let our athletes be people, too. Tennessee Titans Alabama In the end, this wasn’t the first victim Midtown Nashville claimed (speaking from experience), and it won’t be the last. Likewise, this isn’t the first crazy Alabama fan story we’ve heard, and well, it certainly won’t be the last. Tennessee Titans Alabama Thankfully, training camp is set to start, and Mettenberger won’t be hindered at all in his development by this, Tennessee Titans Alabama.

Tennessee Titans History

The Tennessee Titans are a professional football team, one of the 32 franchises of the NFL. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the Titans are members of the South Division of the AFC. Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 in Houston as a charter member of the American Football League. The Oilers won the first two AFL championships, and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger in 1970.
The team relocated from Texas to Tennessee in 1997, and played at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis for one season. They moved to Nashville in 1998 and played in Vanderbilt Stadium. For those two years, the team was known as the Tennessee Oilers, and changed its name to "Titans" in 1999. The team plays at LP Field in Nashville, which opened in 1999 as Adelphia Coliseum. The Titans' training facility is at Saint Thomas Sports Park,^[2] a 31-acre (13 ha) site at the MetroCenter complex, located just north of downtown Nashville, about 5 miles (8 km) from LP Field.

Houston/Tennessee Oilers logo, depicting an oil rig derrick, used prior to 1999.

When the team debuted as the Houston Oilers in 1960, the club's logo was an oil rig derrick. Except for minor color changes throughout the years, this logo remained the same until the team was renamed the Titans in 1999. The logo was originally called "Ol' Riggy," but this was dropped before the start of the 1974 season.

The Oilers uniforms consisted of blue or white jerseys, red trim, and white pants. From 1966 through 1971, the pants with both the blue and white jerseys were silver, to match the color of the helmets. The team commonly wore light blue pants on the road with the white jerseys from 1972 through 1994, with the exception of the 1980 season, and selected games in the mid 80s, when the team wore an all-white road combination. For selected games in 1973 and 1974, and again from 1981 through 1984, the Oilers wore their white jerseys at home. The light blue pants were discarded by coach Jeff Fisher in 1995.

From 1960 to about 1965 and from 1972 to 1974, they wore blue helmets; from 1966 to 1971, the helmets were silver; and they were white from 1975 to 1998.

During the 1997–98 period when they were known as the "Tennessee Oilers", the team had an alternate logo that combined elements of the flag of Tennessee with the derrick logo. The team also wore their white uniforms in home games, as opposed to their time in Houston, when their blue uniforms were worn at home – in the two years as the Tennessee Oilers, the team only wore their colored jerseys twice, for road games against the Miami Dolphins and a Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys.

When the team was renamed the Titans, the club introduced a new logo: A circle with three stars, similar to that found on the flag of Tennessee containing a large "T" with a trail of flames similar to a comet. The uniforms consist of white helmets, red trim, and either navy or white jerseys. White pants are normally worn with the navy jerseys, and navy pants are worn with the white jerseys. On both the navy and white jerseys, the outside shoulders and sleeves are light "Titans Blue". In a game vs. the Washington Redskins in 2006, the Titans wore their navy jerseys with navy pants for the first time.

Since 2000, the Titans have generally worn their dark uniforms at home throughout the preseason and regular season. They have worn white at home in daytime contests for a few occasions in September home games to gain an advantage with the heat except in the 2005, 2006, and 2008 seasons.

The Titans introduced an alternate jersey in 2003 that is light "Titans Blue" with navy outside shoulders and sleeves. That jersey is usually worn with the road blue pants. When it was the alternate jersey from 2003 to 2007, the Titans wore the jersey twice in each regular season game (and once in the preseason). They would always wear the "Titans Blue" jersey in their divisional game against the Houston Texans and for other selected home games which came mostly against a team from the old AFL (American Football League). Their selection in those games were representative of the organization's ties to Houston and the old AFL. In November 2006, the Titans introduced light "Titans Blue" pants in a game at Philadelphia. The pants were reminiscent of the ones donned by the Oilers. In December 2006, they combined the "Titans Blue" pants with the "Titans Blue" jersey to create an all "Titans Blue" uniform – Vince Young appeared in this uniform in the cover art for the Madden NFL 08 video game.

During the 2006 season, the Titans wore seven different uniform combinations, pairing the white jersey with all three sets of pants (white, Titans blue, navy blue), the navy jersey with the white and navy pants, and the Titans blue jersey with navy and Titans blue pants. In 2007 against the Atlanta Falcons, the Titans paired the navy blue jersey with the Titans blue pants for the first time, a game which they won. They also did the navy blue jerseys with the light blue pants against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but they lost that game. The team paired the Titans blue jerseys with the white pants for the first time on November 14, 2013 in a home game against the Indianapolis Colts.

In 2008, it was announced that the "Titans Blue" jerseys would become the regular home uniforms, with the navy being relegated to alternate status.

In 2009, The NFL and Hall of Fame committee announced that the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills would kick-off the 2009 National Football League preseason in the Hall of Fame Game. The game, played on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at Canton’s Pro Football Hall of Fame Field at Fawcett Stadium, was nationally televised on NBC. The Titans defeated the Bills by a score of 21–18.^[4] In honor of the AFL's 50th anniversary, the Titans wore Oilers uniforms for this game. Also in 2009, the team honored former quarterbackSteve McNair by placing a small, navy blue disc on the back of their helmets with a white number 9 inside of it (9 was the number McNair wore during his time with the Oilers/Titans).

Between 2010 and 2012, the Titans did not wear an alternate jersey during any regular season games, but in 2013 it has been announced that the navy jersey will feature in 2 home games at LP Field.

Titans' Mettenberger, Williamson agree to terms

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Titans have agreed to terms with sixth-round draft pick Zach Mettenberger and fifth-round selection Avery Williamson.

Mettenberger threw for 3,082 yards and 22 touchdowns at LSU last season and ranked fourth nationally in passing efficiency. Mettenberger passed for 5,783 yards and 35 touchdowns during his LSU career.

Williamson, a linebacker, had 296 career tackles at Kentucky. He produced more than 100 tackles each of the last two seasons.

The Titans now have agreed to terms with four of their six draft picks.

The only unsigned Titans draft picks are first-round selection Taylor Lewan and second-round choice Bishop Sankey. Lewan's an offensive tackle from Michigan and Sankey's a running back from Washington.

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