Titans Signed Clowney, So Should They Get Fitted For Super Bowl Rings Now Or Just Wait Till After The Season?

I’m a Tennessee Titans fan. But that honestly shouldn’t matter, because anyone with half a brain can see the Titans are winning the Super Bowl this season.

They’ve been waiting in line – like every other team – for their shot at the Lombardi Trophy, but Jadeveon Clowney was their Fast Pass. They now get to skip the line and go straight to the front.

This is a defense that already had a top-ten secondary (most of whom were injured for the AFC Championship game – which is why the result of that game was different than the Titans-Chiefs game from the regular season), and sure they lost Logan Ryan, but they got younger and faster with Kristian Fulton out of LSU who they somehow had fall in their lap in the second round. Guess everyone else in the sport is a bunch of dum-dums. And now they’re getting Vic Beasley AND Jadeveon Clowney to fill the hole left by Jurrell Casey? Pair them with Jeffrey Simmons? Ha, good luck offensive lines. So the Titans’ defensive line got immensely better too.

Now, maybe you’re one of those doofuses out there who’s pointing at Jadeveon Clowney’s PFF page screaming, “BUT HE ONLY HAD 3 SACKS LAST YEAR IN 13 GAMES!” First off, no grown man should put that much emphasis on sacks. Second, you’re right. He wasn’t great last year. But neither was the Seattle Seahawks defense. They were in the bottom third of the league in every category. And you know who’s going to get the most attention in a lousy defense? The best player. Thus why Jadeveon didn’t produce much. I’d like to see you try and fend off double-teams.

But if you take it back to 2017, when Jadeveon had his best statistical year of his career, guess who was his defensive coordinator.

That’s right. This guy:

No not Chubby Frozone, the extra from Deliverance, or the pooping kid in the back. I’m talking about the legend in the Banana Republic button-up.

Michael George Vrabel.

Somehow, in Vrabel’s lone year as the defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, he was able to get more production out of Clowney than we’ve seen since his South Carolina days. And now that the two are back together, I don’t know how you could expect anything less.

Haters will say it’s not happening. Which is fine. They won’t be able to deny the defense, but they’ll look to the offense and start trying to poke holes there. And they’ll start with QB1. They’ll say things like, “You really think Ryan Tannehill is good enough to win a Super Bowl?” Let me answer that question by showing you Super Bowl winning quarterbacks of the past.

So in a word: yes.

The NFL tries to sell you on this theory that you have to have the ghost of Johnny Unitas at quarterback to have any kind of chance to win a Super Bowl. That’s not true. You just need a defense that can shut down every single offense and quarterback who can do just enough. And I’m pretty sure, Tannehill has more than enough to lead a team to a Super Bowl – especially with the three-headed monster of talent he has surrounding him: A.J. Brown, Jonnu Smith, and the king, Derrick Lamar Henry Jr. And if you’re a regular Korked Bats (The #1 Derrick Henry Fan Site On The Internet™) reader, you already know how we feel about Derrick Henry. You can’t hit someone with the “You really think Tannehill can win a Super Bowl?” when literally Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl.

If you’re a betting man, go ahead and put down some Benjamins on the Titans hoisting the Lombardi in February (or April – if the Super Bowl gets delayed because of another COVID flare up). They’re building something great in Nashville from the front office down to the mascot (shout out, T-Rac) to the defense.

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