Quote:I thought highly of Mariota before the draft. But since he's been in Tennessee... eh. 

 

He doesn't look very good when he's playing a team that can stop the run. Go back & look at their rushing stats from last year. When the team ran well, he played well. When they didn't.. he didn't. & that's generally expected from a young guy. 

 

However, we're pretty good at stopping the run. If your defense improves in that area, that's 4 games a year that he's going to have to do something he hasn't yet. 

 

If we sweep them, if you sweep them, that's a 4 game deficit in division. I don't see the Titans winning the division. 

 

Sounds like my thoughts on Mariota. To me he looks a lot like David Garrard of 2007. Looks great when the team around him is playing great, but looked like hot garbage against the Jaguars in December last year before he got his leg broken.

 

As an aside, the fact that he's not made it through a single NFL season without a major leg injury should be a major flag for the guy. It's not like he had these injuries on guys diving into his knee, he's gotten his injuries on really run of the mill kinds of plays, which reinforces what a lot of us here thought about him coming out of college. Doesn't have an NFL body that can take even the small amount of punishment he got behind one of the better offensive lines in the NFL last year.

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