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seems a bit overly pessimistic. Apparently White is out with a toe injury.
I just find it very odd that this is the only story surfacing regarding the toe. I haven't seen anything else floating around with any quotes related to this injury. Weird.
My god, he got SICK. HIS FUTURE IS DOOMED.
Sorry, my assumption when I saw toe injury. My point remains these titans RBs suffer more TOE injuries than any RBs on any other team.Turf Toe? There is a big difference between a sore toe and turf toe.
FYI BigJim®,There is a HUGE difference between an infection of the toe & turf toe.
I'd like to hear more on how White looks running the ball as well.I was at Titans trainning camp yesterday,(August 7,2006) White practiced with everyone else. He ran, jumped, caught passes, joked with other players etc.
I saw him used on two offensive plays. One was a run of tackle the other IIRC was a screen pass. Most of the plays where the run was used Brown and Henry got the carries. White looked good catching the pass, and the off tackle play was ok. He didn't do anything spectacular but he certainly wasn't hurt by any stetch. He ran some plays on special teams: wedge right and wedge left. He blocked for Pacman Jones on the play.He is IMO still learning the offense which is why he wasn't used more extensively on offense. And he seemed like a nice guy while on the sidelines waiting to get in. Talking to folks, etc.Enough info here????I'd like to hear more on how White looks running the ball as well.I was at Titans trainning camp yesterday,(August 7,2006) White practiced with everyone else. He ran, jumped, caught passes, joked with other players etc.
I am no trainer or a doctor. But he looked and act fine to me.- who's is not an abbreviation for who has.- don't refer to a singular person as their- choppy sentences don't make for clear points.- you have a few run-on sentences.- you use the question mark incorrectly.- circular reasoning doesn't make for a very good argument.- avoid obvious cliches like 'in fact' and 'for lack of a better word'- overcritical is spelled thusly- you should take another english class on writing before you blast Mr. Boclair.- it is unlikely that the team reads Mr. Boclair's garbageAlso, FWIW Chris Brown is a better running back than Eddie George, so I'd say it's more of a compliment than a criticism. The only thing Eddie George had on Chris Brown was durability, but that was more of a handicap for the Titans than a help. I'd take 11 games of Chris Brown's 4.9ypc over 16 games of Eddie George's 3.6ypc.
whyHenry has been on the bench for 2 yearsT Henry =
No, it isn't. But it is a contraction.
To be fair, it's not a contraction either... at least, not anymore than glb'r is.
What isn't a contraction? Who's? For Who has? It isn't?Never have I seen a man who's been so confused.
Who's is a contraction for Who is, not who has. Shrunk & White all day
Anyway, I'm surprised you picked the "abbreviation/contraction" rather than the Brown>George to respond to 
Who do you write for currently?J
That's Strunk and White, since we're so keen on handing out tips on writing in this thread.Who's is a contraction for Who is, not who has. Shrunk & White all day
Mrs. Harrison's 3rd grade class?
The writer seemed pretty accurate with his facts. White missed the early time with a hamstring. He missed target dates he'd set for himself. He shows up for camp ready to go and then misses 3 days with a toe issue. Not exactly a roaring start.
Actually if you look closely at the article, you'll notice that under David Boclair's byline is the paper where he does work, The Daily News. Upon a quick Google search, you'll find that The Daily News is a local Murfreesboro paper, a suburb of Nashville. The paper is owned by Gannett, the company that owns The Tennessean, so you're going to get some overlap with beat writers covering the Titans. I agree that the article did suck and The Tennessean shouldn't have picked up the story to begin with mainly because the writing was weak and there was absolutely no substance to the piece. But the Titans beat writers for the Tennessean are actually pretty good, although they tend to have a positive spin on almost everything. The only get critical on the post game report card found in the onday edition of the fall papers. And I'm curious, who do you write for?
Hi drew,What sucked about the article? White's off to a very shaky start. Granted it's early. But he's been far from impressive to this point. The writer is down on him for that. And is worried we might see a repeat of Chris Brown.I kind of like a writer that will say what he thinks instead of take the company line all the time.
Interested in why you say it sucks and has no substance.JLike I mentioned above, I am also for writers who aren't afraid to bite the hand, so to speak. But we are only seven days into White's first training camp and he's calling him the next Chris(sy) Brown. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but White was a horse at USC, missing very little time due to injury."He’ll get ovet the sickness, but chances are the toe is just the first of many ailments he will endure this season. None are likely to be as severe as the original hamstring problem, but the nagging effect of little muscle pulls or tendon tweaks almost certainly will keep him on the sideline for much of the season."First off, this is nitpicky, but I'm a copy editor so I notice these things: The typo in the third word. Could have been the online editor's fault, so that's a pass and doesn't really factor into the content of the piece. The rest of this passage burdons the entire article. It's pure speculation based on one off season and exactly one week of training camp. When you have three other years of intensely competitive college football at USC that he doesn't mention once throughout the entire article - well, that bothers me. Mention that he was injury free until he left college and I'm cool, but he deliberately left this out to push his angle in the story.I think for a long while, there was a time when the Nashville media would lay off the Titans, in fear of pissing them off, but I'm pretty sure the honeymoon was over when they drafted Pac...Joe Bryant said:Hi drew,What sucked about the article? White's off to a very shaky start. Granted it's early. But he's been far from impressive to this point. The writer is down on him for that. And is worried we might see a repeat of Chris Brown.I kind of like a writer that will say what he thinks instead of take the company line all the time.drewblue said:
Hi drew,How durable was Chris Brown in college? I see he missed a couple of games at the end of his career. But doesn't seem too injury prone there. I think writers will focus on what they see right now. White was durable in college. That's great. Love him for it. But this is about now. He looked absolutely pathetic at the combine injured but worse, fat and non motivated. So far, the fact he came into camp not fat is the most positive thing he's done. I think most were hoping for a little more. I don't begrudge the writer at all for an opinion like this.But one mention of being injury free at USC and the article goes from "sucks" and "has no substance" to you being "cool" with it?JLike I mentioned above, I am also for writers who aren't afraid to bite the hand, so to speak. But we are only seven days into White's first training camp and he's calling him the next Chris(sy) Brown. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but White was a horse at USC, missing very little time due to injury."He’ll get ovet the sickness, but chances are the toe is just the first of many ailments he will endure this season. None are likely to be as severe as the original hamstring problem, but the nagging effect of little muscle pulls or tendon tweaks almost certainly will keep him on the sideline for much of the season."First off, this is nitpicky, but I'm a copy editor so I notice these things: The typo in the third word. Could have been the online editor's fault, so that's a pass and doesn't really factor into the content of the piece. The rest of this passage burdons the entire article. It's pure speculation based on one off season and exactly one week of training camp. When you have three other years of intensely competitive college football at USC that he doesn't mention once throughout the entire article - well, that bothers me. Mention that he was injury free until he left college and I'm cool, but he deliberately left this out to push his angle in the story.I think for a long while, there was a time when the Nashville media would lay off the Titans, in fear of pissing them off, but I'm pretty sure the honeymoon was over when they drafted Pac...Joe Bryant said:Hi drew,What sucked about the article? White's off to a very shaky start. Granted it's early. But he's been far from impressive to this point. The writer is down on him for that. And is worried we might see a repeat of Chris Brown.I kind of like a writer that will say what he thinks instead of take the company line all the time.drewblue said:
Yes if I have a feeling that a writer isn't providing all the facts to me in order to achieve his angle, then I do feel the article "sucks" and has little value to me. I expect both sides of an arguement to be presented. An additional paragraph that would have indicated his injury-free background would have absolutely made a difference in my opinion of the piece. But he chose to ignore White's past because it was going against everything he was saying about him not living up to expectations, one week into training camp!I can go with the fact that they're focusing on now, and they should, but when you're talking about someone's injury history, you can't be selective in choosing what story to tell - just tell it all, especially when there wasn't an injury history with White prior to three months ago AND the fact he still hasn't played a down on Sunday.Hi drew,How durable was Chris Brown in college? I see he missed a couple of games at the end of his career. But doesn't seem too injury prone there.Like I mentioned above, I am also for writers who aren't afraid to bite the hand, so to speak. But we are only seven days into White's first training camp and he's calling him the next Chris(sy) Brown. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but White was a horse at USC, missing very little time due to injury."He’ll get ovet the sickness, but chances are the toe is just the first of many ailments he will endure this season. None are likely to be as severe as the original hamstring problem, but the nagging effect of little muscle pulls or tendon tweaks almost certainly will keep him on the sideline for much of the season."Joe Bryant said:Hi drew,What sucked about the article? White's off to a very shaky start. Granted it's early. But he's been far from impressive to this point.drewblue said:
The writer is down on him for that. And is worried we might see a repeat of Chris Brown.
I kind of like a writer that will say what he thinks instead of take the company line all the time.
Interested in why you say it sucks and has no substance.
J
First off, this is nitpicky, but I'm a copy editor so I notice these things: The typo in the third word. Could have been the online editor's fault, so that's a pass and doesn't really factor into the content of the piece.
The rest of this passage burdons the entire article. It's pure speculation based on one off season and exactly one week of training camp. When you have three other years of intensely competitive college football at USC that he doesn't mention once throughout the entire article - well, that bothers me. Mention that he was injury free until he left college and I'm cool, but he deliberately left this out to push his angle in the story.
I think for a long while, there was a time when the Nashville media would lay off the Titans, in fear of pissing them off, but I'm pretty sure the honeymoon was over when they drafted Pac...
I think writers will focus on what they see right now. White was durable in college. That's great. Love him for it.
But this is about now. He looked absolutely pathetic at the combine injured but worse, fat and non motivated. So far, the fact he came into camp not fat is the most positive thing he's done. I think most were hoping for a little more. I don't begrudge the writer at all for an opinion like this.
But one mention of being injury free at USC and the article goes from "sucks" and "has no substance" to you being "cool" with it?
J
I'd agree waylander,How the Saints (Reggie Bush) vs Titans (Vince Young) isn't on national tv, I don't know. Should be really interesting.J
The Titans never got much national attention, but now I think we'll have to draft Jesus to get into any kind of spotlight.In Lendales interview, they asked him about Reggie. Turns out thats who he was working out with to drop from the reported 239 to 227. He also said it will be interesting to be on the opposite sideline of his friend, but he really hopes that the TEN defense tattoo's him. When they asked how the defense should play Reggie, he said "make him turn inside".
