After the Tennessee Titans lost to the New England Patriots 59-0, it was reasonable to ask whether they simply quit.
But running back LenDale White doesn't want to hear it. White acknowledged that he's heard the talk that the Titans look like a team that has quit, and he said that's not the team he sees in practice or on game day.
"It pisses me off," White tells Terry McCormick of the Nashville Scene. "I know all the
people on my team work hard. I know that everybody does when we go out
there for game day. I know everybody out there was fighting to get a
win. Everybody went out there and prepared to get a victory. Nobody quit on us. We gave effort. Believe me, we did what we could. We tried very hard, but it is what it is."
Other Titans backed up White's assessment. Tennessee linebacker Keith Bulluck said of the game in New England,
"It was cold, it was snowing, we were down however many points. You can't quit. I didn't see anyone quit, and I watched the film."
Even if the Titans haven't quit, however, they already look, as they enter November, like a team that's just playing out the string. And they've tacitly acknowledged by benching Kerry Collins for Vince Young that this season has gone down the tubes. White may be right that the Titans haven't quit, but they have stopped playing competitive football.
Don't tell LenDale the Titans have quit
Posted by Michael David Smith on October 29, 2009 12:49 PM ET
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Maybe Lendale should just start drinking tequila again.... If nothing else it will numb the pain of watching vince young try to wrap his mind around an nfl playbook.
ok. we just wont tell him.
Ok so if that wasn't quitting, then the Titans are simply a black hole of suck on the field when they are trying really hard.
@"And they've tacitly acknowledged by benching Kerry Collins for Vince Young that this season has gone down the tubes."
Don't you think it might also say ... look we know we are in trouble but we are willing to make changes to see if we can get better"... Sometime a benching re-invents a team and they can still be successful...
Not saying he is the same guy, but didnt Vince Young do that when he was a rookie...
We lost 59-0
"It is what it is..." lol
Can someone please tell me what that STUPID, "It is what it is" IS? Why don't pro football players just tell the truth, instead of copping out with "It is what it is..."?
How 'bout:
We lost 59-0
"We stink" ?
"It is what it is" is the "Yada, yada, yada" for pro football players:
Elaine Benis:"We went out to dinner, I ordered the crab brisque. We went back to my apartment & yada yada yada, I never saw him again".
Lendale White: We were playing the Patriots. They were much better prepared than we were. They stomped us worse than we have ever been stomped before, & yada yada yada, we quit because we stink"
"It is what it is"
pfffft
"I love those style of play that the Tennessee Titans bring to the game."
I'll trade you one Vince Young for a Jamarcus Russell and a six pack of Natty Lite.
Anyone?...
Damn, I knew I couldn't get a six pack out of it. Ok, I'll give you a six pack of Natty Lite and Vince Young for Jamarcus Russell. I'll throw in a free car wash too.
Don't tell LenDale the Titans have quit... yet.
Maybe LenDale should wait until after this Sunday's game to make such a pronouncement, you know with Vince getting the start. He hasn't even been given the opportunity to quit this year.
Lendale White, you quit. Crying in the locker room at NE, it was pretty obvious that you don't even care.
Call me when *you* do something.
Before the Bucs/Pats game in London it was reported that, due to travel issues, the Bucs were going into the game jet-lagged. And because of weather issues, they were going to have to miss their last practice. Yet the Pats only beat them by 28 points.
They beat the well-rested and fully practiced Titans by 59. What does that say about the Titans?
The Titans have no defensive line left.
Congrats to haynesworth and all the other scumbags that have $$$ on their mind not winning on their mind.
Hopefully haynesworth blows out his knee in washington so it can complete the piece of shits carreer.
Same goes for derrick ward.
It aint about the ring and glory its about the benjamins........
Dont hit me dont hit me im going out of bounds, dont want to hurt my money maker.....
If you saw him or Collins trying to go after their fumbles in the Pats game. You could plainly see they had quit.
Pathetic.
Tell Lendale and the rest of the Titans all they have to do is make a public apology for stepping on the terrible towel and they will start winning .
They have not won a regular season game since the time they stepped on it . So its simple and easy . It that to much to ask for to start playing better and winning ?
You all may not believe in the curse but what else could it be ?
Agreed. Free your souls. You publicly defaced the Towel. Publicly make ammends and Myron will set you free.
@steeltownpride ...
Best explanation I've heard. Look what happened to the Bengals the year after they stomped the towel.
Dan Davis said something about this on ESPN radio today. The exact quote escapes me, but it was along the lines of, "Jeff Fisher decided to keep his job and start Vince Young." Fisher seems to have lost his team. They got lazy and grew fat heads, and now they're getting their asses kicked every week. Too bad for them, but it happens every year.