Now that the Titans' opponent has played a regular season game this year, it's time for the return of Enemy Intelligence, where I watch prior action of the next opponent and highlight some things I think are important. The Titans play their first road game of the season this week in San Diego against the Chargers in the Bolts' home opener. The Chargers are coming off a season-opening 22-14 victory in O.co Coliseum against the Oakland Raiders.
I spent a fair few hours this offseason watching this 2011 Chargers, because I wrote about them for Football Outsiders Almanac 2012, so this writeup will be based on what I saw last year and what I saw from the Raiders game.
Norv Turner is still the Chargers' head coach and they still employ his offensive philosophy built around deep passes.
Philip Rivers' body of work doesn't look pretty even when he's successful, and when he (or the rest of the team) is struggling, it looks real ugly, b...
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Total Titans:
PLAYERS:
Norv Turner,
Philip Rivers,
Mike Harris,
Jared Gaither,
Richard Seymour,
Kamerion Wimbley,
Jeromey Clary,
Derrick Morgan,
Ryan Mathews,
Ronnie Brown,
Curtis Brinkley,
Antonio Gates,
Robert Meachem,
Eddie Royal,
Darren McFadden,
Carson Palmer,
Antonio Garay,
Vaughn Martin,
Corey Liuget,
Takeo Spikes,
Donald Butler,
Travis LaBoy,
Jarret Johnson,
Shaun Phillips,
Melvin Ingram,
Antwan Barnes,
Eric Weddle,
Atari Bigby,
Shareece Wright,
Marcus Gilchrist,
Quentin Jammer,
Antoine Cason,
Randy McMichael,
Dante Rosario,
Brandyn Dombrowski
TEAMS: San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans
TEAMS: San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans
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