The Titans have been bad at football, but perhaps worse, they’ve been boring.
They might not be able to change both this year with Zach Mettenberger as their starting quarterback, but they’re definitely changing one of them.
“When he steps on the field, he’s not really worried about being a pretty boy, white-collar thing,” Titans tackle Taylor Lewan said, via Paul Kuharsky of ESPN.com. “He’s a savage. He throws an interception, an incomplete, anything like that, he’s going to get up and say, ‘Screw that, I’m throwing darts the rest of the game.’ That’s kind of what his thing is. That’s pretty damn cool.”
Mettenberger admitted he’s going to take chances, the same way he did at LSU, and is willing to grow through those.
“You’ve got to take risks in this game,” Mettenberger said. “You’re probably going to misquote me. But to play in this league 10 years, you’ve got to throw it to your guys. Something coach [Cam Cameron at LSU] taught me last year is, I’m the guy with the ball, if I view a guy as open, he is open. So throw it to our guy, away from theirs.
“I think the term gunslinger gets thrown around a little too much. If you turn the ball over I guess that can be kind of a label you get. But I am trying to avoid that. I don’t want to be a gunslinger, I want to be a quarterback.”
He’s going to get that chance now, as the Titans aren’t in a position to hinder anyone’s development who might turn into one.